Past Rutgers University Honorary Degree Recipients
This list of honorary degree recipients is sortable by last name, year conferred, and degree type. Click on the title of the column to sort the list by that particular content.
We have added the honorary degree citations for some of our recipients. Click on the Citation images, where shown, to read them.
| Last name | First name | Year |
Degree |
Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duverger | Maurice | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ormandy | Eugene | 1960 | Doctor of Music | |
| Copland | Aaron | 1967 | Doctor of Music | |
| Walter | F. Austin | 1966 | Doctor of Music | |
| Reese | Gustave | 1972 | Doctor of Music | |
| Anderson | Marian | 1957 | Doctor of Music | |
| Mendel | Arthur | 1973 | Doctor of Music | |
| Sessions | Roger | 1962 | Doctor of Music | |
| Gillespie | John Birks | 1970 | Doctor of Music | |
| Lewis | Henry | 1969 | Doctor of Music | |
| Rubinstein | Arthur | 1963 | Doctor of Music | |
| Horne | Marilyn | 1971 | Doctor of Music | |
| Hardt | Robert Andrew | 1956 | Doctor of Philosophy | |
| Goodall | Jane | 2005 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cohen | Stanley Norman | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sakharov | Andrei Dmitrievich | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Likens | Gene Elden | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Quimby | Edith Hinkley | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| McClintock | Barbara | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Klein | Lawrence R. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gelfand | Israel Moiseevich | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Ackerman | Roger G. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cole | William Harder | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Leakey | Richard E. | 2014 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gould | Stephen Jay | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Colwell | Rita R. | 2005 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lindzey | Gardner | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rauscher, Jr. | Frank Joseph | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kohn | Walter | 2001 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schaaf | Royal Albert | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Osborn | June E. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Raven | Peter Hamilton | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| McFarland | Ross Armstrong | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nye | William Sanford | 2015 | Doctor of Science | |
| Waelsch | Salome Gluecksohn | 1998 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burton | Glenn Willard | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schein | Philip S. | 2006 | Doctor of Science | |
| Conn | Jerome W. | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lipscomb | William Nunn | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Read | Hilton Shreve | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Garrett | Laurie | 2021 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lorenz | Edward Norton | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wall | Monroe E. | 1999 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gronquist | Carl Harry | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Solow | Robert M. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Persichilli | Judith | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hutchins | John Richard, III | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Engstrom | Elmer W. | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burnell | S. Jocelyn Bell | 2016 | Doctor of Science |
