Robbert Dijkgraaf to Receive Honorary Doctorate

Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study and Leon Levy Professor, has been selected to receive an honorary doctorate from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands on May 24. The award recognizes Dijkgraaf’s achievements as a mathematical physicist, as well as his efforts to make science accessible to the general public, including in popular writing and presentations and in the science website he created for children, www.proefjes.nl. Gerard Meijer, President of the Radboud University Executive Board, remarked, “Like no other, Robbert Dijkgraaf has succeeded in making science more visible and accessible to the public by translating abstract scientific concepts into evocative stories. He has done both science and the general public a great service.”