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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapp | Margaret | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dougherty | John Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kessler | Henry Howard | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hughes | Richard Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Adlai Ewing | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Engstrom | Elmer W. | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Perkins | James A. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miers | Earl Schenck | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hellman | Lillian | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Rubinstein | Arthur | 1963 | Doctor of Music | |
| Baron | Salo Wittmayer | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Martin | George Willard | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Morrow | John Howard | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wu | Chien-Shiung | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bender | Carl Beitel | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wescott | Glenway | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Wayne | Edward Anthony | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Block | Herbert Lawrence | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Weaver | Robert Clifton | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cowdrey | Mary Bartlett | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Tatum | Edward Lawrie | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shahn | Ben | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Nicolson | Marjorie Hope | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Harrison Scott | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Randolph | Asa Philip | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smithers | Robert Brinkley | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bryan | James Edmund | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Betancourt | Romulo | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reese | Everett David | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Blackman | Samuel Garrison | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| McFarland | Ross Armstrong | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Conn | Jerome W. | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lowell | Robert | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Epstein | Benjamin | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hyde | Mary Morley Crapo | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Fair | Gordon Maskew | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marin | Luis Muñoz | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Trager | William | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Holderman | Pauline Beatrice | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | William Arthur | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rees | Mina | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Knowles | Francis | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ellison | Ralph Waldo | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Weisenfeld | Allan | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Boocock | Philip Milledoler Brett | 1966 | Doctor of Letters |