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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karikó | Katalin | 2023 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lorenz | Edward Norton | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rohrer | Heinrick | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gronquist | Carl Harry | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pino | John Anthony | 1996 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hutchins | John Richard, III | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Zimbardo | Philip G. | 2009 | Doctor of Science | |
| Engstrom | Elmer W. | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shepard | Roger Newland | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rossi | Alice S. | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Zworykin | Vladimir K. | 1972 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shockley | William B. | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Luria | Salvador Edward | 1970 | Doctor of Science | |
| Anderson | Philip Warren | 1991 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lasagna | Louis | 1983 | Doctor of Science | |
| Tilghman | Shirley M. | 2006 | Doctor of Science | |
| Newmark | Harold L. | 1998 | Doctor of Science | |
| Caldicott | Helen | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Press | Frank | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Trager | William | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jackson | Shirley Ann | 1999 | Doctor of Science | |
| Atiyah | Sir Michael | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Miller | Neal E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Newmark | Nathan Mortimore | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fair | Gordon Maskew | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wheeler | John Archibald | 1969 | Doctor of Science | |
| Auchter | George David | 1962 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lubchenco | Jane | 2013 | Doctor of Science | |
| Singer | Wolf | 2008 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hedefine | Alfred | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brenner | Jeffrey | 2014 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lederberg | Joshua | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Heidelberger | Michael | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Snedeker | Chester Wesley | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Moxon | Rosamond Sawyer | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Kenyon | Lee John | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| MacCarter | Beatrice Bouchier | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| White | Ruth Patricia | 1962 | Master of Fine Arts | |
| Everett | Thomas Henry | 1959 | Master of Science |
