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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charanis | Peter | 1980 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Sessions | Roger | 1962 | Doctor of Music | |
| Mendel | Arthur | 1973 | Doctor of Music | |
| Rubinstein | Arthur | 1963 | Doctor of Music | |
| Copland | Aaron | 1967 | Doctor of Music | |
| Anderson | Marian | 1957 | Doctor of Music | |
| Ormandy | Eugene | 1960 | Doctor of Music | |
| Reese | Gustave | 1972 | Doctor of Music | |
| Walter | F. Austin | 1966 | Doctor of Music | |
| Gillespie | John Birks | 1970 | Doctor of Music | |
| Lewis | Henry | 1969 | Doctor of Music | |
| Horne | Marilyn | 1971 | Doctor of Music | |
| Hardt | Robert Andrew | 1956 | Doctor of Philosophy | |
| Makadon | Harvey J. | 2017 | Doctor of Science | |
| Goodall | Jane | 2005 | Doctor of Science | |
| Ericsson | Aprille Joy | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cherkasky | Martin | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wretlind | Arvid | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| McClintock | Barbara | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Penzias | Arno A. | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Likens | Gene Elden | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sebrell, Jr. | William Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wu | Chien-Shiung | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bender | Carl Beitel | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Peplau | Hildegard E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Djerassi | Carl | 2010 | Doctor of Science | |
| Klein | Lawrence R. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brown | Harrison Scott | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wieschaus | Eric F. | 2002 | Doctor of Science | |
| Yalow | Rosalyn S. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Benson | Ezra Taft | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gould | Stephen Jay | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nelson | Alondra | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Seligmann | Peter A. | 2003 | Doctor of Science | |
| Perry | Enos J. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lavizzo-Mourey | Risa J. | 2018 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lindzey | Gardner | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| McFarland | Ross Armstrong | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kohn | Walter | 2001 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cleary | Edward John | 1959 | Doctor of Science | |
| Dresselhaus | Mildred S. | 1989 | Doctor of Science | |
| Tatum | Edward Lawrie | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lipscomb | William Nunn | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Karikó | Katalin | 2023 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lorenz | Edward Norton | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pino | John Anthony | 1996 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rohrer | Heinrick | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gronquist | Carl Harry | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cohen | Stanley Norman | 1994 | Doctor of Science |
