1673 x 2641 px | 14,2 x 22,4 cm | 5,6 x 8,8 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
12 giugno 2009
Ubicazione:
CAMBRIDGE ENGLAND UK
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Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been awarded an honorary degree by prestigious Cambridge University. The world's richest businessman and his wife Melinda Gates have both received a Doctor of Law and have become one of the few couples to both be recognised by the university. Mr Gates, who left Harvard University without a degree to start his computing company in 1976, has since amassed an estimated £40 billion fortune. The couple, who were given their awards in a special ceremony at the Senate House, co-founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to improve healthcare and reduce poverty. In 2000 the foundation donated £130 million for the Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme, to enable 230 outstanding graduate students from outside the UK to study at Cambridge.
