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Degrees will also be bestowed upon philanthropist and diplomat Walter H. Annenberg, presidential policy advisor William T. Coleman Jr., social and feminist historian Natalie Zemon Davis, French historian Francois Furet, dancer Judith A. Jamison, philanthropist Oseola McCarty, physicist Charles P. Slichter '45 and National Institutes of Health director Harold E. Varmus...
Charles P. Slichter...
...Slichter, who is employed at the Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Illinois, was a Fellow of the College from 1969 to 1995 and the only science professor on the Harvard Corporation...
...Slichter earned his A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard and will add an honorary LL.D to that today...
...last Corporation member to step down, Charles P. Slichter '45, also an academic, was replaced by James R. Houghton '58, a corporate executive. It is certainly not in the University's interest to be run by corporate executives alone. Those who have made a personal, life-long commitment to the pursuit of learning serve a necessary place on the University's ranking body...