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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hutchins | John Richard, III | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Engstrom | Elmer W. | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sakharov | Andrei Dmitrievich | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Yalow | Rosalyn S. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Luria | Salvador Edward | 1970 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lasagna | Louis | 1983 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nelson | Alondra | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Anderson | Philip Warren | 1991 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rauscher, Jr. | Frank Joseph | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lavizzo-Mourey | Risa J. | 2018 | Doctor of Science | |
| Caldicott | Helen | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Raven | Peter Hamilton | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jackson | Shirley Ann | 1999 | Doctor of Science | |
| Miller | Neal E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fair | Gordon Maskew | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schaaf | Royal Albert | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Osborn | June E. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Atiyah | Sir Michael | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Read | Hilton Shreve | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Waelsch | Salome Gluecksohn | 1998 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schein | Philip S. | 2006 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hedefine | Alfred | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Auchter | George David | 1962 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lederberg | Joshua | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Heidelberger | Michael | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Karikó | Katalin | 2023 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hardt | Robert Andrew | 1956 | Doctor of Philosophy | |
| Reese | Gustave | 1972 | Doctor of Music | |
| Walter | F. Austin | 1966 | Doctor of Music | |
| Gillespie | John Birks | 1970 | Doctor of Music | |
| Lewis | Henry | 1969 | Doctor of Music | |
| Sessions | Roger | 1962 | Doctor of Music | |
| Horne | Marilyn | 1971 | Doctor of Music | |
| Rubinstein | Arthur | 1963 | Doctor of Music | |
| Copland | Aaron | 1967 | Doctor of Music | |
| Mendel | Arthur | 1973 | Doctor of Music | |
| Anderson | Marian | 1957 | Doctor of Music | |
| Ormandy | Eugene | 1960 | Doctor of Music | |
| Cunningham | John T. | 1974 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Boyd | Julian Parks | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mitchell | Eleanor | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mailer | Norman | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Jensen | Merril | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Fergusson | Francis | 1975 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Welty | Eudora | 1978 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hellman | Lillian | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Redd | Dana | 2023 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bailyn | Bernard | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Marchand | Leslie Alexis | 1981 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Schlesinger, Jr. | Arthur M. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters |
