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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lederberg | Joshua | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cobb | Jewel Plummer | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Duverger | Maurice | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bundy | McGeorge | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Schlesinger, Jr. | Arthur M. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Burnham | Walter Dean | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| McCormick | Richard P. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Pearson | Paul G. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Beck | Robert A. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Van Ness | Stanley C. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Salisbury | Harrison Evans | 1983 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Stern | Isaac | 1983 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Riley | Matilda White | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lasagna | Louis | 1983 | Doctor of Science | |
| Weisskopf | Victor Frederick | 1983 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | Samuel Clifford | 1983 | Doctor of Letters | |
| David, Jr. | Edward E. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Branscomb | Lewis McAdory | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lerner | Irwin | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mrak | Emil M. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Martindell | Anne Clark | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Massey | Walter Eugene | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Papp | Joseph | 1984 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Burke | James E. | 1984 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| McClintock | Barbara | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kroesen | Frederick James | 1984 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hutchins | John Richard, III | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cowen | David Laurence | 1984 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Levin | Janice H. | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cherkasky | Martin | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stamato | Linda L. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Likens | Gene Elden | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Byrne, Jr. | John Joseph | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Peplau | Hildegard E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Miller | Neal E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Smith | Margaret Chase | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Paley | William S. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cohen | Wilbur J. | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reitman | Norman | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Edelman | Marian Wright | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ribicoff | Abraham | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Scott | Hugh | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boehm | Helen F. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Muskie | Edmund Sixtus | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rohrer | Heinrick | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Roth | Philip | 1987 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Williams | Joseph D. | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hopper | Grace Murray | 1987 | Doctor of Science |
