NOBEL laureate William C Campbell is to have a street or place named after him in the Co Donegal town where he grew up.
Donegal county councillors have supported a call to have the joint winner of last year’s Nobel prize for physiology or medicine honoured in Ramelton.
Professor Campbell was educated at Campbell College in Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin and has spent most of his life working in the US.
He received the 2015 Nobel prize for his work developing a treatment for river blindness caused by parasitic worms.
The proposal to honour him came from veteran Donegal councillor Ian McGarvey and passed without opposition.
“The council will agree now at council meeting in Lifford to identify a place agreeable to the family where he would be acknowledged,” he said.
