page_title: List of Free University of Berlin people
section_title: Honorary degrees
hierarchical_section_title: List of Free University of Berlin people / Honorary degrees
caption_attribution_description: English: Paul Krugman, Laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 at a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm Deutsch: Paul Krugman, Träger des Preises für Wirtschaftswissenschaften der schwedischen Reichsbank in Gedenken an Alfred Nobel 2008, auf einer Pressekonferenz an der Königlich-Schwedischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Stockholm Svenska: Paul Krugman, pristagare i Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 2008, på presskonferensen i Kungliga Vetenskapsakademin, Stockholm
context_page_description: A list of Free University of Berlin people. Alumni and faculty of the Free University include many scientists, philosophers and politicians, amongst them five Nobel Prize winners and 19 Leibniz laureates.
context_section_description: During its history, Free University has awarded various people with an honorary degree, amongst them:
  1949: Ernst Reuter – mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953
  1949: Theodor Heuss – first President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1959 (by the Department of Philosophy)
  1956: Lise Meitner – physicist, co-discoverer of nuclear fission (by the Department of Physics)
  1963: Walter Gropius - architect and founder of the Bauhaus School (by the Department of Philosophy)
  1964: Robert F. Kennedy – American politician from the Kennedy family who served as Attorney General (by the Department of Philosophy)
  1998: Paul Krugman – American Nobel Prize-winning economist (by the JFK Institute for North American Studies)
  1999: Bronislaw Geremek – Polish social historian and politician (by the Otto Suhr Institute)
  1999: Salman Rushdie - British Indian novelist and essayist (by the Department of Philosophy and Humanities)
  2001: Kofi Annan – Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (by the Department of Political and Social Sciences)
  2005: Günter Grass – Nobel Prize-winning writer (by the Department of Philosophy and Humanities)
  2005: Imre Kertész – Hungarian Nobel Prize-winning writer (by the Department of Philosophy and Humanities)
  2006: Marcel Reich-Ranicki – Polish-born German literary critic and member of the literary group Gruppe 47 (by the Department of Philosophy and Humanities)
  2006: Theodor W. Hänsch – Nobel Prize-winning physicist (by the Department of Physics)
  2007: Orhan Pamuk – Turkish Nobel Prize-winning writer (by the Department of Philosophy and Humanities)
  2008: Cees Nooteboom – Dutch novelist, poet, and journalist (by the Department of Philosophy and Humanities)
  2010: Ed Diener – American psychologist (by the Department of Education and Psychology)
  2010: Jagdish Bhagwati – Indian-born American economist (by the School of Business and Economics)
  2012: Homi K. Bhabha – Indian-English scholar and critical theorist (by the Department of Philosophy and Humanities)
  2010: George M. Whitesides – American chemist (by the Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy)
caption: Paul Krugman, economist, holds an FU Berlin honorary degree
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