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The Harvard Dropout Collects Honorary Doctorates Around the World
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Though he left Harvard without finishing, Bill Gates has collected honorary doctorates from universities around the world in recognition of his work in technology and global health — among them KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden (2002), Waseda University in Japan (2005), Tsinghua University in China and the Karolinska Institute (2007), Harvard (2007), and the University of Cambridge (2009). The international array reflected how, by the 2000s, Gates was being honored as much for the Gates Foundation's global-health work as for Microsoft.
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Pakistan awards Gates the Hilal-e-Pakistan for polio work
On February 17, 2022, Pakistani President Arif Alvi conferred the Hilal-e-Pakistan — the country's second-highest civilian honor — on Bill Gates in recognition of the Gates Foundation's support for polio eradication and poverty reduction. The award came as Pakistan, one of the last two countries with endemic wild polio, marked a year without a new case, a milestone Gates had long invested in.
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