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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hopper | Grace Murray | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Williams | Joseph D. | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gould | Stephen Jay | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lawrence | Jacob | 1988 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Yasuhiro | Nakasone | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Werblin | David A. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lerner | Gerda | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Raven | Peter Hamilton | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Commager | Henry Steele | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Watson | James Dewey | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Woodward | C. Vann | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McPhee | John Angus | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Baker | Russell Wayne | 1989 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Cavazos | Lauro F. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Heningburg | Gustave | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Proctor | Samuel DeWitt | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Dresselhaus | Mildred S. | 1989 | Doctor of Science | |
| Whitehead | John C. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Allen | Robert E. | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wilson | Blenda Jacqueline | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gregorian | Vartan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Florio | James J. | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Franklin | John Hope | 1990 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Geltman | Samuel | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Voorhees | Ralph W. | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lichtenstein | Roy | 1990 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Caldicott | Helen | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lorenz | Edward Norton | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Larsen | Ralph S. | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Carter | Bennett Lester | 1991 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Vagelos | P. Roy | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ginsburg | Ruth Bader | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wideman | John Edgar | 1991 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Anderson | Adrienne Scotchbrook | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Anderson | Philip Warren | 1991 | Doctor of Science | |
| Suzman | The Honorable Helen | 1992 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shepard | Roger Newland | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Child | Julia | 1992 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Mario | Ernest | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wolfe | Deborah Cannon Patridge | 1992 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Atiyah | Sir Michael | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Roe | Robert A. | 1993 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Francis | Norman C. | 1993 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Jordan | Barbara | 1993 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hines | Jerome | 1993 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
