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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nannes | Caspar | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Rubinstein | Arthur | 1963 | Doctor of Music | |
| Mendel | Arthur | 1973 | Doctor of Music | |
| Ormandy | Eugene | 1960 | Doctor of Music | |
| Reese | Gustave | 1972 | Doctor of Music | |
| Walter | F. Austin | 1966 | Doctor of Music | |
| Copland | Aaron | 1967 | Doctor of Music | |
| Anderson | Marian | 1957 | 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 | |
| Hardt | Robert Andrew | 1956 | Doctor of Philosophy | |
| Pino | John Anthony | 1996 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rohrer | Heinrick | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Goodall | Jane | 2005 | Doctor of Science | |
| McClintock | Barbara | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burnell | S. Jocelyn Bell | 2016 | Doctor of Science | |
| Carson | Benjamin | 2003 | Doctor of Science | |
| Persichilli | Judith | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Likens | Gene Elden | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shepard | Roger Newland | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cuthbertson | David Paton | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| David, Jr. | Edward E. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Klein | Lawrence R. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rossi | Alice S. | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shockley | William B. | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wilson | William Julius | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Branscomb | Lewis McAdory | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fisk | James Brown | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gould | Stephen Jay | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Press | Frank | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Tilghman | Shirley M. | 2006 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fiske | Jessie Gladys | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Newmark | Harold L. | 1998 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lindzey | Gardner | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Baker | William Oliver | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Witkin | Evelyn M. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| McFarland | Ross Armstrong | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Trager | William | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kohn | Walter | 2001 | Doctor of Science | |
| Newmark | Nathan Mortimore | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brinster | Ralph L. | 2000 | Doctor of Science | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lipscomb | William Nunn | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Singer | Wolf | 2008 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hicks | Arthur James | 2017 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lorenz | Edward Norton | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wretlind | Arvid | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Makadon | Harvey J. | 2017 | Doctor of Science |
