The University will today confer honorary degrees on 11--including a celebrated conductor, a key benefactor, a Holocaust-survivor-turned- pioneering entrepreneur and three Nobel laureates.

Nicolaas Bloembergen, Noam Chomsky, Frank O. Gehry, Andrew S. Grove, Judith R. Hope, Katherine B. Loker, Maclyn McCarty, Constance Baker Motley, Kenzaburo Oe, Seiji Ozawa and Amartya Sen will receive the degrees.

Serenaded by a string quartet playing Dvorak's opus, the honorands dined last night in Annenberg Hall on tomato basil soup, veal scaloppini with Madeira sauce and almond tulie cups for dessert.

Nicolaas Bloembergen

Bloembergen is the Gerhard Gade University Professor emeritus in Harvard's physics department. He served in the department from 1951 until his retirement in 1990.

Well known for work in numerous areas of physics, including nuclear resonance, lasers and optics, Bloembergen is a Nobel laureate in Physics. He is the author of one of the most famous scholarly articles in physics.

Bloembergen received a degree in physics from University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1943. He was forced into hiding later during the Nazi occupation of Holland. After the war he was a graduate student at Harvard and received an honorary masters degree from Harvard in 1951