Honorary Doctorates at the University of Bergen
An honorary doctorate is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations. The doctorate is often conferred as a way of honouring a distinguished visitor's contributions to a specific field or to society in general.
Published: 02.02.2009 (Last updated: 27.04.2017)
The University of Bergen awarded Odd Dahl with its first honorary doctorate in 1951.
The following list include all honorary doctorates awarded by the University of Bergen since 1951.
1950-70
- Odd Dahl 1951
- Niels Backer-Grøndahl, 1958
- Gunnar Rollefsen 1960
- Hugh Marwick 1964
- Andreas Strand 1965
- Per Laland 1966
- Vilhelm Møller-Christensen 1970
1975
- Kristján Eldjárn
- Jens Arup Seip
- Erling Johansen
- Holger Holgersen
- Walther Heinrich Munk
- Frans Stafleu
- C.E. Wegmann
- Ingjald Nissen
1980
- Jakob Benediktsson
- Tekla Dømøtør
- James G. March
- Felix Milgrom
- Stanley Keith Runcorn
- Åse Gruda Skard
1985
- Erling Dekke Næss
- Harald Enge
- Lars Brundin
- Sigvald Refsum
- Harald Løe
- Kåre Reitan
- Inga Sylvander
- Donald R. Matthews
- Just Faaland
- Torstein E. Eckhoff
1987
- Torsten N. Wiesel 1987
1990
- Nils-Arvid Bringéus
- Yusuf Fadl Hasan
- Michael Ruse
- Otto Pribilla
- Sigurd P. Ramfjord
- William H. Allaway
- Jay W. Forrester
- James D. Halloran
- Hans M. Michelsen
- Helge Røstad
- Ragnar Rommetveit
1992
- Anne Stine Ingstad
- Helge Ingstad
1996
- Jan Svartvik
- Johan Fjord Jensen
- Michelle Perrot
- Mieke Bal
- Johs. Andenæs
- Bertil Bengtsson
- Hanne Sophie Greve
- Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance
- Anders Farestveit
- Richard E. Ewing
- Jacobus Henridicus van Lint
- John Gunnar Forsberg
- Samuel Maselle
- Sir Richard Doll
- Ghorbind H. Khorana
- Elisabeth Barret-Connor
- Seymor Levine
- Sol Seim
- Birgit Thilander
- Maud Bergmann
- Erik Allardt
- Jean Briggs
1998
- Jan S. Nilsson
- Rita R. Colwell
2000
- Leonore Davidoff
- Lázló Török
- Magnus Aarbakke
- Claire Fraser
- Peter R. Vogt
- Elisabeth Bock
- Torvald C. Laurent
- Per Brandtzæg
- Anna Louise von der Lippe
- Gerald R. Patterson
- Anders Bratholm
- P.J.M. Ssebuwufu
2001
- Georg Henrik von Wright
2004
- Angela Carmen Vincent
- Joan Wallach Scott
- Fadwa Abdel Rahman Ali Taha
- Bernhard Guggenheim
- Henry Valen
- Arne Öhman
- Karin Cornils
- Gao Dengyi
- Manfred Schartl
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
- Eva Joly
2008
- Luce Irigaray
- Anna-Theresa Tymieniecka
- Peter Christian Müller-Graff
- Dan Laksov
- Janet Thornton
- Allen J. Wilcox
- Livingstone S. Luboobi
- Peter Milgrom
- Fredrik Barth
- J. Bruce Overmier
2011
- Gudmund Hernes
- Arne Skauge
2012
- Jon Hellesnes
- Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg
- Anne E. Magurran
- Henning Dralle
- Karl Halvor Teigen
- Shelly Lundberg
- Cindy Lee van Dover