Prof. Oystein Fischer awarded a Honoris Causa Doctorate from UniNE

During the Dies Academicus of the University of Neuchatel that took place on Saturday November 5, 2005 – in the presence of Charles Kleiber, the State Secretary for Education and Research – Prof. Oystein Fischer received a Honoris Causa Doctorate.

With this gesture, the press release says, “… the Faculty of Sciences wishes to honour a world-known physicist for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of condensed matter physics and for the close collaboration he has maintained with the research groups at the Institute of Physics of the UniNE that are working in this field (…)”.