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Honorary degrees celebrate campus success story

(21 September 2001)

The University is to mark the formal opening of the Wolfson Research Institute by conferring honorary degrees on two former Vice-Chancellors of Durham Emeritus Professor Sir Frederick Holliday (Vice-Chancellor 1980-90); Emeritus Professor Evelyn Ebsworth (Vice-Chancellor 1990-98) and two major figures in the world of medicine: Sir Donald Irvine (President of the General Medical Council); Lord Walton of Detchant (Acclaimed Neurologist).