Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name |
Degree |
Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bigelow, Henry Bryant | Doctor of Science | 1941 | |
| Curie,Marie, Madame | Doctor of Science | 1921 | |
| Sedgwick, William Thompson | Doctor of Science | 1909 | |
| Townes, Charles H. | Doctor of Science | 1988 | |
| Wheeler, John Archibald | Doctor of Science | 1974 | |
| Beams, Jesse Wakefield | Doctor of Science | 1976 | |
| Hess, Harry H. | Doctor of Science | 1969 | |
| Levi-Strauss, Claude | Doctor of Science | 1965 | |
| Haskins, Caryl P. | Doctor of Science | 1958 | |
| Cannon, Walter Bradford | Doctor of Science | 1923 | |
| MacLane, Saunders | Doctor of Science | 1969 | |
| Brooks, Harvey | Doctor of Science | 1962 | |
| Brown, Ernest William | Doctor of Science | 1933 | |
| Whitehead, Alfred North | Doctor of Science | 1927 | |
| Stiles, Charles Wardell | Doctor of Science | 1915 | |
| Cori, Carl Ferdinand | Doctor of Science | 1946 | |
| Park, William Hallock | Doctor of Science | 1929 | |
| Cooper, Franklin Seaney | Doctor of Science | 1976 | |
| Córdova, France A. | Doctor of Science | 2023 | |
| Howell, William Henry | Doctor of Science | 1911 | |
| Fermi, Enrico | Doctor of Science | 1946 | |
| Pääbo, Svante | Doctor of Science | 2020 | |
| MacCready, Paul B. | Doctor of Science | 1983 | |
| Weinberg, Steven | Doctor of Science | 1979 | |
| Nirenberg, Marshall | Doctor of Science | 1965 | |
| Moore, Gordon | Doctor of Science | 2002 | |
| Woodward, Robert Burns | Doctor of Science | 1956 | |
| Zewail, Ahmed H. | Doctor of Science | 2014 | |
| Bowen, Norman Levi | Doctor of Science | 1951 | |
| Rees, Martin | Doctor of Science | 2008 | |
| Sherlock, Dame Shella | Doctor of Science | 1983 | |
| Saunders, Dr. Cicely | Doctor of Science | 1969 | |
| Berg, Paul | Doctor of Science | 1978 | |
| Bridgman, Percy Williams | Doctor of Science | 1951 | |
| Kao, Charles Kuen | Doctor of Science | 1999 | |
| Bronk, Detlev Wulf | Doctor of Science | 1955 | |
| Stakman, Elvin Charles | Doctor of Science | 1950 | |
| Buck, Sir Peter Henry | Doctor of Science | 1951 | |
| Painter, Theophilus Shickel | Doctor of Science | 1936 | |
| Hotchkiss, Rollin D. | Doctor of Science | 1962 | |
| Dantzig, George B. | Doctor of Science | 1978 | |
| Deforest, Lee | Doctor of Science | 1926 | |
| Loeb, Jacques | Doctor of Science | 1923 | |
| May, Robert McCredie | Doctor of Science | 1993 | |
| Abelson, Philip H. | Doctor of Science | 1964 | |
| Tilghman, Shirley | Doctor of Science | 2002 | |
| du Vigneaud, Vincent | Doctor of Science | 1955 | |
| Dochez, Alphonse Raymond | Doctor of Science | 1926 | |
| Noguchi, Hideyo | Doctor of Science | 1921 | |
| Kroeber, Alfred Louis | Doctor of Science | 1946 |