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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Everett | Thomas Henry | 1959 | Master of Science | |
| White | Ruth Patricia | 1962 | Master of Fine Arts | |
| MacCarter | Beatrice Bouchier | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Moxon | Rosamond Sawyer | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Kenyon | Lee John | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Snedeker | Chester Wesley | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Goodall | Jane | 2005 | Doctor of Science | |
| Solow | Robert M. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wall | Monroe E. | 1999 | Doctor of Science | |
| Likens | Gene Elden | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Zimbardo | Philip G. | 2009 | Doctor of Science | |
| Engstrom | Elmer W. | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| McClintock | Barbara | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Zworykin | Vladimir K. | 1972 | Doctor of Science | |
| Klein | Lawrence R. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gould | Stephen Jay | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Reilly | Hilda Christine | 1966 | Doctor of Science | |
| Anderson | Philip Warren | 1991 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lindzey | Gardner | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stevens | Rosemary A. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Caldicott | Helen | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Watson | James Dewey | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Atiyah | Sir Michael | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wheeler | John Archibald | 1969 | Doctor of Science | |
| Scott | Eugenie C. | 2007 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fair | Gordon Maskew | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| McFarland | Ross Armstrong | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kohn | Walter | 2001 | Doctor of Science | |
| Auchter | George David | 1962 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lipscomb | William Nunn | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pauling | Linus | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lubchenco | Jane | 2013 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stewart | William Huffman | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lorenz | Edward Norton | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Payne-Gaposchkin | Cecelia | 1968 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brenner | Jeffrey | 2014 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gronquist | Carl Harry | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cuthbertson | David Paton | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sebrell, Jr. | William Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Penzias | Arno A. | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hutchins | John Richard, III | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Carson | Benjamin | 2003 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wieschaus | Eric F. | 2002 | Doctor of Science | |
| David, Jr. | Edward E. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Luria | Salvador Edward | 1970 | Doctor of Science | |
| Peplau | Hildegard E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Leakey | Richard E. | 2014 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lasagna | Louis | 1983 | Doctor of Science | |
| Seligmann | Peter A. | 2003 | Doctor of Science |
