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 | |
| Makadon | Harvey J. | 2017 | Doctor of Science | |
| Ericsson | Aprille Joy | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gronquist | Carl Harry | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wretlind | Arvid | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Carson | Benjamin | 2003 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sebrell, Jr. | William Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cuthbertson | David Paton | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wu | Chien-Shiung | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Penzias | Arno A. | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hutchins | John Richard, III | 1984 | 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 | |
| Yalow | Rosalyn S. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Peplau | Hildegard E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fisk | James Brown | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lasagna | Louis | 1983 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nelson | Alondra | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Seligmann | Peter A. | 2003 | Doctor of Science | |
| Branscomb | Lewis McAdory | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fiske | Jessie Gladys | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lavizzo-Mourey | Risa J. | 2018 | Doctor of Science | |
| Baker | William Oliver | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Perry | Enos J. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jackson | Shirley Ann | 1999 | Doctor of Science | |
| Miller | Neal E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brinster | Ralph L. | 2000 | Doctor of Science | |
| Tatum | Edward Lawrie | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hedefine | Alfred | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lederberg | Joshua | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Karikó | Katalin | 2023 | Doctor of Science | |
| Heidelberger | Michael | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jemison | Mae C. | 2001 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rohrer | Heinrick | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cherkasky | Martin | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pino | John Anthony | 1996 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shepard | Roger Newland | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Zimbardo | Philip G. | 2009 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brown | Harrison Scott | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rossi | Alice S. | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bender | Carl Beitel | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shockley | William B. | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Djerassi | Carl | 2010 | Doctor of Science | |
| Margulis | Lynn | 2004 | Doctor of Science |
