Posts Tagged ‘Nobel’

Nobel laureates, environmental activist, senator and community leaders to receive UBC honorary degrees

Feb. 1, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Two Nobel laureates are among the 10 individuals who will receive honorary degrees at the Vancouver campus of the University of British Columbia this year.

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Max Planck-UBC Centre for Quantum Materials MPG Munich 04.Oct. 2010. L-R: Stephen Toope (UBC), Bernhard Keimer (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research), George Sawatzky (UBC), Berthold Neizert (Max Planck Society), John Hepburn (UBC).

UBC, Max Planck formalize partnership among world’s top quantum physicists

Oct. 4, 2010 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

The University of British Columbia today forged a formal partnership with the Max Planck Society, Germany’s foremost basic research institution and home to 32 Nobel prizes.

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Carl Wieman to take up White House post

Sep. 23, 2010 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: , , , , , , ,

The United States Senate has confirmed University of British Columbia professor and Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman for the position of Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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