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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ericsson | Aprille Joy | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wretlind | Arvid | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Solow | Robert M. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Likens | Gene Elden | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Carson | Benjamin | 2003 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wu | Chien-Shiung | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| McClintock | Barbara | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cuthbertson | David Paton | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Klein | Lawrence R. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Yalow | Rosalyn S. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| David, Jr. | Edward E. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Branscomb | Lewis McAdory | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gould | Stephen Jay | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fisk | James Brown | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nelson | Alondra | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Reilly | Hilda Christine | 1966 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lavizzo-Mourey | Risa J. | 2018 | Doctor of Science | |
| Watson | James Dewey | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fiske | Jessie Gladys | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lindzey | Gardner | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stevens | Rosemary A. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Baker | William Oliver | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kohn | Walter | 2001 | Doctor of Science | |
| Scott | Eugenie C. | 2007 | Doctor of Science | |
| McFarland | Ross Armstrong | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brinster | Ralph L. | 2000 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lipscomb | William Nunn | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pauling | Linus | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stewart | William Huffman | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Karikó | Katalin | 2023 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lorenz | Edward Norton | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Payne-Gaposchkin | Cecelia | 1968 | Doctor of Science | |
| MacCarter | Beatrice Bouchier | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Moxon | Rosamond Sawyer | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Kenyon | Lee John | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Snedeker | Chester Wesley | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| White | Ruth Patricia | 1962 | Master of Fine Arts | |
| Everett | Thomas Henry | 1959 | Master of Science |
