"Solemn Opening Ceremony of the 1998-99 Academic Year and investiture as Honorary Doctors of David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel and Jaime Carvajal y Urquijo" held on October 3, 1998 at the Gran Teatro de Elche. Biografía Nils Wiesel (Uppsala, Sweden, June 3, 1924) is a Swedish neurobiologist who won the Nobel Prize...
David Hunter Hubel (Windsor, 1926 - Lincoln, 2013) Canadian-born American neurobiologist. He studied medicine at McGill University in Montreal, where he received his doctorate in 1951, and worked in Montreal and Baltimore. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1953, and from 1959 he taught at Harvard University, where he chaired the Department of Neurophysiology...
Awarded an honorary doctorate by the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) on October 23, 1998. Birth: February 15, 1908, Urrea de Gaén Death: June 5, 2001, Madrid Spouse: Milagro Martínez Prieto (m. 1934–1993) Genre: Playwriting and essay Awards: Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities in 1989 Creu de Sant Jordi in 1982...
Jaime Carvajal y Urquijo Jaime Fernando Carvajal y de Urquijo (Llodio, Spain; June 9, 1939), 5th Marquis of Isasi and Marquis Consort of Hoyos, is a Spanish economist, lawyer and aristocrat with an extensive professional career as a financier, entrepreneur, businessman, investor and philanthropist. Biografía y trayectoria profesional Born on June 9, 1939, Jaime Carvajal...
Investit doctor honoris causa on October 7, 1997. Spanish Banker (January 1, 1916 – May 16, 2010) He was born on January 1, 1916, in Águilas, Murcia. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Miguel Hernández University on October 7, 1997. At the age of twelve, he began working as an office...
Friedrich Wilhelm Eigler (born May 10, 1932, in Sangerhausen) is a German professor emeritus of surgery. The Miguel Hernández University of Elche awarded Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Eigler an honorary doctorate on January 26, 2001, during the celebration of the feast day of Saint Thomas Aquinas. The solemn academic ceremony took place at 11:00 a.m. in...
David Roxbee Cox (Birmingham, July 15, 1924 – January 18, 2022) was an English statistician. Among his numerous positions, he held professorships at Birkbeck College (1961–1965) and Imperial College (1966–1988) and served as president of the International Statistical Institute (1995–1997). In 2016, he was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences....
José Ángel Sánchez Asiaín (Baracaldo, Vizcaya, March 1, 1929 – Madrid, December 31, 2016). Economist. He graduated from the University of Deusto in 1952 and received his doctorate in Economics from the Central University of Madrid in 1958. Between 1955 and 1964, he was a professor of public finance at the University of Deusto. He...
On the morning of Friday, January 28, 2022, the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche awarded Marie Johnston, Professor Emeritus of Health Psychology at the University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom), an Honorary Doctorate, during the feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas. The sponsors of the new Honorary Doctorate were María Ángeles Pastor Mira and Sofía López...
Miguel Hernández Awarded an honorary doctorate posthumously by the Miguel Hernández University of Elche on October 18, 1998. The fig tree planted in the honorary doctorate garden was taken from Miguel Hernández's own fig tree. Biography: (Orihuela, 1910 - Alicante, 1942) Spanish poet. A member of the Generation of '27, Miguel Hernández was known for...