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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seligmann | Peter A. | 2003 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mrak | Emil M. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Massey | Walter Eugene | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Perry | Enos J. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Caldicott | Helen | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Atiyah | Sir Michael | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nye | William Sanford | 2015 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fair | Gordon Maskew | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hopper | Grace Murray | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Auchter | George David | 1962 | Doctor of Science | |
| Tatum | Edward Lawrie | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mayo | John S. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kertes | Ferdinand | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Goldstine | Herman Heine | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Garrett | Laurie | 2021 | Doctor of Science | |
| Goodall | Jane | 2005 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pino | John Anthony | 1996 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rohrer | Heinrick | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Carson | Benjamin | 2003 | Doctor of Science | |
| McClintock | Barbara | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shepard | Roger Newland | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cuthbertson | David Paton | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burnell | S. Jocelyn Bell | 2016 | Doctor of Science | |
| Likens | Gene Elden | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Persichilli | Judith | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wilson | William Julius | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Klein | Lawrence R. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shockley | William B. | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| David, Jr. | Edward E. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rossi | Alice S. | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gould | Stephen Jay | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Branscomb | Lewis McAdory | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fisk | James Brown | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Newmark | Harold L. | 1998 | Doctor of Science | |
| Witkin | Evelyn M. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Baker | William Oliver | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Press | Frank | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lindzey | Gardner | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Tilghman | Shirley M. | 2006 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fiske | Jessie Gladys | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| McFarland | Ross Armstrong | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Newmark | Nathan Mortimore | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kohn | Walter | 2001 | Doctor of Science | |
| Trager | William | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Singer | Wolf | 2008 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brinster | Ralph L. | 2000 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lipscomb | William Nunn | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hicks | Arthur James | 2017 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lorenz | Edward Norton | 1990 | Doctor of Science |
