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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiske | Jessie Gladys | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Press | Frank | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lerner | Irwin | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Trager | William | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nye | William Sanford | 2015 | Doctor of Science | |
| Newmark | Nathan Mortimore | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brinster | Ralph L. | 2000 | Doctor of Science | |
| Singer | Wolf | 2008 | Doctor of Science | |
| Morrison | Philip | 1977 | Doctor of Science | |
| Garrett | Laurie | 2021 | Doctor of Science | |
| Martin | George Willard | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cherkasky | Martin | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Levin | Wayne M. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sakharov | Andrei Dmitrievich | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Martin | William Hope | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burnell | S. Jocelyn Bell | 2016 | Doctor of Science | |
| Persichilli | Judith | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gibson | Eleanor Jack | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Quimby | Edith Hinkley | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bender | Carl Beitel | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Djerassi | Carl | 2010 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brown | Harrison Scott | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wilson | William Julius | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Benson | Ezra Taft | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mrak | Emil M. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Witkin | Evelyn M. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Massey | Walter Eugene | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rauscher, Jr. | Frank Joseph | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hopper | Grace Murray | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schaaf | Royal Albert | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Osborn | June E. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cleary | Edward John | 1959 | Doctor of Science | |
| Raven | Peter Hamilton | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Waelsch | Salome Gluecksohn | 1998 | Doctor of Science | |
| Dresselhaus | Mildred S. | 1989 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schein | Philip S. | 2006 | Doctor of Science | |
| Read | Hilton Shreve | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mayo | John S. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hicks | Arthur James | 2017 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kertes | Ferdinand | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Goldstine | Herman Heine | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wretlind | Arvid | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wall | Monroe E. | 1999 | Doctor of Science | |
| Makadon | Harvey J. | 2017 | Doctor of Science | |
| Solow | Robert M. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Ericsson | Aprille Joy | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cohen | Stanley Norman | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Goodall | Jane | 2005 | Doctor of Science | |
| Likens | Gene Elden | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wu | Chien-Shiung | 1963 | Doctor of Science |
