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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Everett | Thomas Henry | 1959 | Master of Science | |
| White | Ruth Patricia | 1962 | Master of Fine Arts | |
| MacCarter | Beatrice Bouchier | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Snedeker | Chester Wesley | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Moxon | Rosamond Sawyer | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Kenyon | Lee John | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Pino | John Anthony | 1996 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gronquist | Carl Harry | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rohrer | Heinrick | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cohen | Stanley Norman | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Persichilli | Judith | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hutchins | John Richard, III | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burnell | S. Jocelyn Bell | 2016 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shepard | Roger Newland | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gelfand | Israel Moiseevich | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wilson | William Julius | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Luria | Salvador Edward | 1970 | Doctor of Science | |
| Ackerman | Roger G. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rossi | Alice S. | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cole | William Harder | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shockley | William B. | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lasagna | Louis | 1983 | Doctor of Science | |
| Press | Frank | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Tilghman | Shirley M. | 2006 | Doctor of Science | |
| Witkin | Evelyn M. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Colwell | Rita R. | 2005 | Doctor of Science | |
| Newmark | Harold L. | 1998 | Doctor of Science | |
| Trager | William | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jackson | Shirley Ann | 1999 | Doctor of Science | |
| Newmark | Nathan Mortimore | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Miller | Neal E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burton | Glenn Willard | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hedefine | Alfred | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Conn | Jerome W. | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Singer | Wolf | 2008 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lederberg | Joshua | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Heidelberger | Michael | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hicks | Arthur James | 2017 | Doctor of Science | |
| Ericsson | Aprille Joy | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wretlind | Arvid | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jemison | Mae C. | 2001 | Doctor of Science | |
| Makadon | Harvey J. | 2017 | Doctor of Science | |
| Engstrom | Elmer W. | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Quimby | Edith Hinkley | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wu | Chien-Shiung | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sakharov | Andrei Dmitrievich | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Yalow | Rosalyn S. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Margulis | Lynn | 2004 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nelson | Alondra | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Anderson | Philip Warren | 1991 | Doctor of Science |
