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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stewart | William Huffman | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Garrett | Laurie | 2021 | Doctor of Science | |
| Payne-Gaposchkin | Cecelia | 1968 | Doctor of Science | |
| Levin | Wayne M. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Martin | George Willard | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burnell | S. Jocelyn Bell | 2016 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cuthbertson | David Paton | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gibson | Eleanor Jack | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Persichilli | Judith | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sebrell, Jr. | William Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Carson | Benjamin | 2003 | Doctor of Science | |
| Penzias | Arno A. | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Martin | William Hope | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| David, Jr. | Edward E. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wieschaus | Eric F. | 2002 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wilson | William Julius | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Peplau | Hildegard E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mrak | Emil M. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Branscomb | Lewis McAdory | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fisk | James Brown | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Seligmann | Peter A. | 2003 | Doctor of Science | |
| Massey | Walter Eugene | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Baker | William Oliver | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fiske | Jessie Gladys | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Witkin | Evelyn M. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Perry | Enos J. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hopper | Grace Murray | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Tatum | Edward Lawrie | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brinster | Ralph L. | 2000 | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| White | Ruth Patricia | 1962 | Master of Fine Arts | |
| Everett | Thomas Henry | 1959 | Master of Science |
