Cambridge University has submitted eight individuals for the conferment of honorary degrees. Amongst those nominates are three Nobel Prize winners and the university’s former Vice-Chancellor.

Dame Alison Richard, the former-vice chancellor, is an honorary fellow of Newnham, Wolfson and Lucy Cavendish College’s. She joins Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr Shirin Ebadi, a lawyer, judge and former president of the Tehran City Court; Sir Martin Evans, Nobel Prize winner in medicine, and Sir Peter Mansfield, Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine and a developer of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

Also set to receive the honorary degrees are Sir Trevor Nunn, former artistic director of the RSC and honorary fellow of Downing college, and the cellist Anita Lasker Wallfisch, co-founder of the English Chamber Orchestra. A holocaust survivor, she has written extensively on the subject and is a visiting lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity.

Others nominated include Sir Colin Davis, who has formerly held the posts of musical director of the Royal Opera House and principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Also Dr Mildred Dresselhaus, professor of physics and electrical engineering and Emerita Institute professor at the Massachusetts institute of technology.

The list of names has been submitted to the university governing body for approval and the degrees will be conferred at a congregation in the Senate house on June 23rd.