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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rauscher, Jr. | Frank Joseph | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Massey | Walter Eugene | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Colwell | Rita R. | 2005 | Doctor of Science | |
| Raven | Peter Hamilton | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wheeler | John Archibald | 1969 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hopper | Grace Murray | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schaaf | Royal Albert | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Osborn | June E. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Read | Hilton Shreve | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Waelsch | Salome Gluecksohn | 1998 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burton | Glenn Willard | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schein | Philip S. | 2006 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lubchenco | Jane | 2013 | Doctor of Science | |
| Conn | Jerome W. | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Goldstine | Herman Heine | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brenner | Jeffrey | 2014 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mayo | John S. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kertes | Ferdinand | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Solow | Robert M. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Goodall | Jane | 2005 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wall | Monroe E. | 1999 | Doctor of Science | |
| Engstrom | Elmer W. | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Likens | Gene Elden | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| McClintock | Barbara | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Leakey | Richard E. | 2014 | 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 | |
| Stevens | Rosemary A. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lindzey | Gardner | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Watson | James Dewey | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Caldicott | Helen | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kohn | Walter | 2001 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fair | Gordon Maskew | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Scott | Eugenie C. | 2007 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nye | William Sanford | 2015 | Doctor of Science | |
| Atiyah | Sir Michael | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| McFarland | Ross Armstrong | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stewart | William Huffman | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lipscomb | William Nunn | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Auchter | George David | 1962 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pauling | Linus | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Garrett | Laurie | 2021 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lorenz | Edward Norton | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Payne-Gaposchkin | Cecelia | 1968 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gronquist | Carl Harry | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Persichilli | Judith | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Carson | Benjamin | 2003 | Doctor of Science |
