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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engstrom | Elmer W. | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Margulis | Lynn | 2004 | Doctor of Science | |
| Yalow | Rosalyn S. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Anderson | Philip Warren | 1991 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nelson | Alondra | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Reilly | Hilda Christine | 1966 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lavizzo-Mourey | Risa J. | 2018 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mario | Ernest | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stevens | Rosemary A. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Watson | James Dewey | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lerner | Irwin | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Caldicott | Helen | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Atiyah | Sir Michael | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fair | Gordon Maskew | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Scott | Eugenie C. | 2007 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pauling | Linus | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Auchter | George David | 1962 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stewart | William Huffman | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Morrison | Philip | 1977 | Doctor of Science | |
| Payne-Gaposchkin | Cecelia | 1968 | Doctor of Science | |
| Karikó | Katalin | 2023 | Doctor of Science | |
| Martin | George Willard | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Levin | Wayne M. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Carson | Benjamin | 2003 | Doctor of Science | |
| Penzias | Arno A. | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Martin | William Hope | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cuthbertson | David Paton | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Zimbardo | Philip G. | 2009 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gibson | Eleanor Jack | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sebrell, Jr. | William Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Peplau | Hildegard E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| David, Jr. | Edward E. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Zworykin | Vladimir K. | 1972 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wieschaus | Eric F. | 2002 | Doctor of Science | |
| Seligmann | Peter A. | 2003 | Doctor of Science | |
| Branscomb | Lewis McAdory | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mrak | Emil M. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fisk | James Brown | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Perry | Enos J. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Baker | William Oliver | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Massey | Walter Eugene | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fiske | Jessie Gladys | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hopper | Grace Murray | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wheeler | John Archibald | 1969 | Doctor of Science | |
| Tatum | Edward Lawrie | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brinster | Ralph L. | 2000 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lubchenco | Jane | 2013 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mayo | John S. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kertes | Ferdinand | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brenner | Jeffrey | 2014 | Doctor of Science |
