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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rees | Mina | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Holderman | Pauline Beatrice | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | William Arthur | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Blackman | Samuel Garrison | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| McFarland | Ross Armstrong | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shahn | Ben | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Tatum | Edward Lawrie | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Conn | Jerome W. | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cowdrey | Mary Bartlett | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Nicolson | Marjorie Hope | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Randolph | Asa Philip | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smithers | Robert Brinkley | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reese | Everett David | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Harrison Scott | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bryan | James Edmund | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Betancourt | Romulo | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Perkins | James A. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Block | Herbert Lawrence | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Wu | Chien-Shiung | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Engstrom | Elmer W. | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Miers | Earl Schenck | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Rubinstein | Arthur | 1963 | Doctor of Music | |
| Hellman | Lillian | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Wescott | Glenway | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Baron | Salo Wittmayer | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Martin | George Willard | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Morrow | John Howard | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bender | Carl Beitel | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wayne | Edward Anthony | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weaver | Robert Clifton | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kessler | Henry Howard | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Weeks | Edward A. | 1962 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Myers | Chauncie Kilmer | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hughes | Richard Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sessions | Roger | 1962 | Doctor of Music | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Auchter | George David | 1962 | Doctor of Science | |
| White | Ruth Patricia | 1962 | Master of Fine Arts | |
| Clapp | Margaret | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dougherty | John Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Adlai Ewing | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mazur | Paul Myer | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Piel | Gerard | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Kriendler | Irving Robert | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rukeyser | Muriel | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Heidelberger | Michael | 1961 | Doctor of Science |