Year
Recipient
Degree
Accomplishment
Nominating Unit
2008
John E. Ahern
Doctor of Science
Businessman, community leader
Civil and Environmental Engineering
John W. Rowe
Doctor of Humane Letters and Science
Energy industry leader, community benefactor
Engineering Physics, History
2007
Leslie H. Hicks
Doctor of Science
Distinguished scientist, educator and graduate mentor
Psychology
Alan G. MacDiarmid
Doctor of Science (posthumous)
Distinguished chemist and scholar
Chemistry
2006
Oscar C. Boldt
Doctor of Science
Distinguished businessman and community leader
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Florence Chenoweth
Doctor of Humane Letters
Executive director of United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, advocate for the poor
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
William L. Ogren
Doctor of Science
Distinguished plant biologist
Botany
Karen Odessa Piper
Doctor of Humane Letters
Culinary artist, advocate for sustainability in the food and agricultural system
Integrated Agricultural Systems, Rural Sociology
Robert Segalman
Doctor of Science
Social worker, advocate for people with disabilities, founder of STS (Speech to Speech)
School of Social Work, Sociology
2005
William C. Campbell
Doctor of Science
Distinguished parasitologist and pharmacologist
Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, Pathobiological Sciences
2004
George Archibald
Doctor of Science
Wildlife conservationist
Wildlife Ecology, Environmental Studies
André De Shields
Doctor of Fine Arts
Award-winning actor, mentor
Afro-American Studies, Theatre and Drama
Florence Howe
Doctor of Humane Letters
Writer, scholar, founder of field of women's studies
English
Nancy Oestreich Lurie
Doctor of Humane Letters
Anthropologist, museum curator
Anthropology, American Indian Studies
June E. Osborn
Doctor of Science
Public health leader, educator, physician
Pharmacology
Pleasant T. Rowland
Doctor of Humane Letters
Educator, author, philanthropist
Human Ecology
2003
Carl J. Anderson
Doctor of Science
Computer engineer, scientist
Physics
Charlene Barshefsky
Doctor of Laws
Attorney, former U.S. trade representative
LaFollette School of Public Affairs
Neuma F. de Aguiar
Doctor of Science
Sociologist, scholar of women and development issues
Rural Sociology
2002
Lewis A. Barness
Doctor of Science
Pediatrician, pediatric researcher, teacher
Pediatrics
Ruth Gruber
Doctor of Humane Letters
Journalist and human rights activist
Jewish Studies
John Harbison
Doctor of Fine Arts
World-renowned composer
Music
Norman J. Latker
Doctor of Laws
Attorney, patent counsel, patent examiner
Biochemistry
David S. Ruder
Doctor of Laws
Law professor, dean, public servant
Law
2001
Pratima Kale
Doctor of Humane Letters
Humanitarian addressing challenges of world's poorest women and children
Educational Policy Studies
George B. Schaller
Doctor of Science
Preeminent field biologist, environmentalist
Zoology
2000
Ali Ahmed Attiga
Doctor of Science
International leader, economist; authority on petroleum-based energy policies
Agricultural and Applied Economics
Uta Hagen
Doctor of Fine Arts
Legendary actress, acting teacher
Afro-American Studies
Harvey K. Littleton
Doctor of Fine Arts
Artist, founder of studio glass movement
Art
Ernest Micek
Doctor of Science
Distinguished national and global businessman
Chemical Engineering
Seymour Schwartz
Doctor of Science
Renowned surgeon, respected cartographer
Surgery, Geography
1999
Hélène Cixous
Doctor of Letters
Writer, critic, teacher
French and Italian
Enid Gilbert-Barness
Doctor of Science
Authority in pediatric pathology
Medical School
Nathan Heffernan
Doctor of Laws
Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice
Law School
John Reynolds
Doctor of Laws
Sr. Judge on the U.S. District Court
Law School
Chai-Anan Samudavanija
Doctor of Laws
Leading Thai social scientist
Political Science
1998
Paul D. Boyer
Doctor of Science
Biochemist and researcher
Institute for Enzyme Research
Raymond Damadian
Doctor of Science
Researcher; inventor of MRI
Physics
Tenzin Gyatso
Doctor of Laws
14th Dalai Lama
South Asian Studies
Jean Johnson
Doctor of Science
Founder of modern nursing research methods
School of Nursing
Alejandro Portes
Doctor of Science
International sociologist
Rural Sociology
Walter Renk
Doctor of Science
Agricultural leader
Agricultural and Applied Economics
1997
Lawrence S. Eagleburger
LL.D.
Foreign policy leader
International Studies and Programs
Sam Gilliam
D.F.A.
Artist; teacher and educator
Art
Alice R. McPherson
Sc.D.
International retina specialist
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Donald E. Osterbrock
Sc.D.
Astronomer; historian of science; astrophysicist
Astronomy
Charles E. Rosenberg
L.H.D.
Historian of science and medicine
History of Medicine, History of Science
Gilbert Stork
Sc.D
Organic chemist and educator
Chemistry
1996
Etta Zuber Falconer
Sc.D
Mathematics educator
Mathematics
Frances Keesler Graham
Sc.D.
Developmental psychologist
Psychology
Ralph H. Hirschmann
Sc.D.
Biochemist
Chemistry
Frederick Mancheski
Sc.D.
Distinguished business leader
Mechanical Engineering
Robert Serber
Sc.D.
Theoretical physicist
Physics
James Tobin
LL.D.
Nobel Prize recipient in economics
Economics
1995
Stephen Edward Ambrose
L.H.D.
Prominent American historian
History
Carl Djerassi
Sc.D.
Outstanding chemist
Chemistry
Winfred P. Lehmann
L.H.D.
Linguist and educator
German
Abner Joseph Mikva
LL.D.
Lawyer, legislator, judge
Law
Roy F. Weston
Sc.D.
Environmental engineer
Environmental Studies
1994
Robert Kemp Adair
Sc.D.
High energy physics leader
Physics
Gro Harlem Brundtland
LL.D.
Prime Minister of Norway
Scandinavian Studies
Anna S. Halprin
D.F.A.
Dancer/innovative choreographer
Dance Program
John P. Morgridge
Sc.D.
Electronic communications executive
Computer Science, School of Business
Robert B. L. Murphy
LL.D.
Prominent lawyer, history supporter
Law School
John R. Searle
L.H.D.
Professor of philosophy
English, Philosophy
1993
Linda Harman Aiken
Sc.D.
Gertrude B. Elion
Sc.D.
Ody J. Fish
LL.D.
Alejandro Foxley
LL.D.
Erwin Neher
Sc.D.
1992
Jajah Koswara
Sc.D.
William Wilson Morgan
Sc.D.
Spencer Gilbert Shaw
L.H.D.
I. Bernard Weinstein
Sc.D.
1991
Laxmangudi K. Doraiswamy
Sc.D.
Leopold Sedar Senghor
L.H.D.
Mabel M. Smythe-Haith
LL.D.
John Szarkowski
D.F.A.
1990
Barbara Jean Brandiff Crabb
LL.D.
Owen Justus Gromme
L.H.D.
Jack St. Clair Kilby
Sc.D.
Alan Schneider
L.H.D. (posthumous)
Norton David Zinder
Sc.D.
1989
Lawrence A. Cremin
Sc.D.
Otis Dudly Duncan
Sc.D.
Thelma Estrin
Sc.D.
Walter Mirisch
Sc.D.
Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr.
Sc.D.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
LL.D.
Jose Pastore
Sc.D.
Leon E. Rosenberg
Sc.D.
1988
Charles Crane Bradley
Doctor of Environmental Science
Nina Leopold Bradley
Doctor of Environmental Science
Raymond George Herb
Sc.D.
Sir Ronald Syme
L.H.D.
1987
John Vincent Atanasoff
Sc.D.
Martin Mark Kaplan
Sc.D.
Charles Selden McNeer
LL.D.
1986
Roy Hertz
Sc.D.
Motoo Kimura
Sc.D.
Ardis Krainik
L.H.D.
Gaylord A. Nelson
LL.D.
Wallace Stegner
Litt.D.
1985
Jerrold Lewis Bock
L.H.D.
Eppie Lederer (Ann Landers)
L.H.D.
Joyce Carol Oates
Litt.D.
George Tipler
LL.D.
1984
Alfred Robert Bader
Sc.D.
Orville George Bentley
Sc.D.
Joyce Carol Oates
Litt.D.
Russell Wilbur Peterson
LL.D.
Evelyn Steenbock
L.H.D.
Paul Vanderbilt
L.H.D.
1983
Gay Wilson Allen
Litt.D.
James Edward Doyle
LL.D.
Philip Levine
Sc.D.
Joseph Losey
L.H.D.
Emmett Gamaliel Solomon
L.H.D.
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
Sc.D.
1982
Daniel Gaskill Aldrich, Jr.
Sc.D.
Ethel Kullmann Allen
Sc.D.
Marie Davis Gadsden
L.H.D.
Melvin Robert Laird
LL.D.
Leonard Solomon Silk
L.H.D.
Esmond Emerson Snell
Sc.D.
1981
Germaine Bree
L.H.D.
Nicholas Geoffrey Lempriere Hammond
L.H.D.
Benjamin Arthur Quarles
L.H.D.
Dennis Wallace Watson
Sc.D.
Robert Henry Wentorf
Sc.D.
1980
Luna Bergere Leopold
Sc.D.
Eric John Underwood
Sc.D.
Dale Wasserman
L.H.D.
1979
Gene Myron Amdahl
Sc.D.
Fernando Garcia Roel
Sc.D.
Ray David Owen
Sc.D.
Veda Wright Stone
L.H.D.
Manfred Eric Swarsensky
L.H.D.
1978
Walter G. Hollander
LL.D.
Joseph Aaron Pechman
LL.D.
John Edward Reinhardt
LL.D.
Stanislaw Marcin Ulam
Sc.D.
1977
Arthur Joseph Heisdorf
Sc.D.
Otto Luening
D.F.A.
Oscar Gustave Mayer
LL.D.
George Molinaro
LL.D.
Mary Fowler Rennebohm
LL.D.
1976
Walter James Burke
LL.D.
George Robert Currie
LL.D.
Emily Hahn
L.H.D.
Har Gobind Khorana
Sc.D.
Guillermo Soberon
Sc.D.
1975
Thomas Edward Fairchild
LL.D.
Martha Elizabeth Peterson
L.H.D.
Jane Werner Watson
L.H.D.
George Prior Wollard
Sc.D.
1974
Marshall Clagett
L.H.D.
Catherine Blanchard Cleary
LL.D.
Ada Elizabeth Deer
L.H.D.
Stanford Moore
Sc.D.
Arthur Charles Nielsen, Sr.
Sc.D.
Hezikiah Adedunmola Oluwasanmi
LL.D.
1973
Paul Erdos
Sc.D.
Mark Hoyt Ingraham
L.H.D.
Warren Perley Knowles
LL.D.
William David Knox
LL.D.
1972
Ira Lawrence Baldwin
Sc.D.
Karl Henry Beyer, Jr.
Sc.D.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Litt.D.
Margaret H'Doubler Claxton
D.F.A.
William Gardner Harley
LL.D.
Sigurd Ferdinand Olson
Sc.D.
1971
Edward 'Duke' Kennedy Ellington
D.Mus.
Howard Palfrey Jones
LL.D.
Frederick Merk
L.H.D.
William S. Middleton
Sc.D.
A. Matt Werner
LL.D.
1970
William Oscar Beers
LL.D.
C. Moreau Jansky, Jr.
Sc.D.
Jay Laurence Lush
Sc.D.
Russell I. Thackrey
LL.D.
Lewis George Weeks
Sc.D.
Harry Richard Wellman
LL.D.
1969
John King Fairbank
L.H.D.
Robben Wright Fleming
LL.D.
Karl August Folkers
Sc.D.
Einar Ingvald Haugen
L.H.D.
Walter Wolfgang Heller
LL.D.
Alexander Hollaender
Sc.D.
1968
Howard Hathaway Aiken
Sc.D.
John Doar
LL.D.
Theodore William Schultz
LL.D.
Albert Edward Whitford
Sc.D.
1967
Robert Justus Kleberg
Sc.D.
Joshua Lederberg
Sc.D.
Nathan M. Pusey
Litt.D.
Louis Byrne Slichter
Sc.D.
Carl Emil Steiger
LL.D.
1966
Oscar James Campbell
Litt.D.
Marquis William Childs
Litt.D.
Wilbur Joseph Cohen
LL.D.
Farrington Daniels
Sc.D.
M. D. Patel
Sc.D.
Emanuel Ruben Piore
Sc.D.
1965
Arthur Clay Cope
Sc.D.
Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck
LL.D.
William Richard Kellett
Sc.D.
Karl Augustus Menninger
Sc.D.
William Willard Wirtz
LL.D.
Sewall Wright
Sc.D.
1964
Lloyd Kirkham Garrison
LL.D.
Victor Irwin Maier
LL.D.
Alexander Meiklejohn
Litt.D.
Donald Charles Slichter
LL.D.
Edward Lawrie Tatum
Sc.D.
1963
Herbert Fisk Johnson
LL.D.
George Frost Kennan
LL.D.
William Beverly Murphy
LL.D.
1962
Leland John Haworth
Sc.D.
Oscar Rennebohm
LL.D.
Mark Schorer
Litt.D.
Whitney North Seymour
LL.D.
1961
Mary Ingraham Bunting
Sc.D.
Donald William Kerst
Sc.D.
Louis Paul Lochner
Litt.D.
Arleigh William Schorger
Sc.D.
Harold Willis Story
LL.D.
1960
John Bardeen
Sc.D.
Edmund Fitzgerald
LL.D.
Thor Johnson
Mus.D.
Golda Meir
LL.D.
Haakon Ingolf Romnes
LL.D.
1959
John David Jones
LL.D.
Samuel Lenher
Sc.D.
John Solon Lord
LL.D.
Frederic March
L.H.D.
James Lewis Morrill
LL.D.
1958
Edwin Broun Fred
LL.D.
Wilder Graves Penfield
Sc.D.
1957
Lee Alvin DuBridge
Sc.D.
Keith Stratton McHugh
LL.D.
Edward Steichen
D.F.A.
1956
Benjamin Minge Duggar
Sc.D.
William John Hagenah
LL.D.
Charles Kenneth Leith
LL.D.
Edward Joseph O'Donnell
LL.D.
Herbert Victor Prochnow
LL.D.
1955
Jacob Frank Friedrick
LL.D.
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Sc.D.
Frank Lloyd Wright
D.F.A.
1954
Gergory Breit
Sc.D.
Earnest Albert Hooton
Litt.D.
Asuncion Arriola Perez
LL.D.
Elvin Charles Stakman
Sc.D.
Eudora Welty
Litt.D.
1953
David Clark Everest
LL.D.
Oscar Marion Fritz
LL.D.
Arnold Lucius Gesell
Sc.D.
Grayson Louis Kirk
LL.D.
Helen Rogers Reid
LL.D.
1952
Thomas E. Brittingham, Jr.
LL.D.
F. Ryan Duffy
LL.D.
Solomon C. Hollister
Sc.D.
Ko Kuei Chen
Sc.D.
1951
Ira B. Cross
LL.D.
Herold C. Hunt
LL.D.
Mary Woodard Lasker
LL.D.
Oscar G. Mayer
LL.D.
Ralph M. Waters
Sc.D.
1950
John Callahan
LL.D.
George W. Mead
LL.D.
Frank B. Morrison
Sc.D.
Philip D. Reed
LL.D.
Lily R. Taylor
Litt.D.
1949
Lucia R. Briggs
LL.D.
Kenneth F. Burgess
LL.D.
Esther Forbes
Litt.D.
Harry J. Grant
LL.D.
Edwin B. Hart
Sc.D.
Howard M. Jones
Litt.D.
Herbert V. Kohler
LL.D.
Trygve Lie
LL.D.
Walter J. Meek
Sc.D.
William Schuman
Mus.D.
Frank J. Sensenbrenner
LL.D.
Sumner H. Slichter
LL.D.
Eugene P. Wigner
Sc.D.
1948
Omar N. Bradley
LL.D.
Alice C. Evans
Sc.D.
Harold S. Falk
LL.D.
Warren Weaver
LL.D.
1947
George I. Haight
LL.D.
John H. Van Vleck
Sc.D.
1946
Stanley C. Allyn
LL.D.
Herman B. Wells
LL.S.
Alexander Wetmore
Sc.D.
1945
Herbert E. Bolton
Litt.D.
Edward J. Dempsey
LL.D.
Cornelius A. Harper
LL.D.
William E. Wickenden
LL.D.
1944
Herman L. Ekern
LL.D.
Arthur J. Glover
LL.D.
Jesse T. Littleton
Sc.D.
1943
Henry A. Bullis
LL.D.
Henry F. Helmholz
Sc.D.
William D. Leahy
LL.D.
1942
Hu Shih
LL.D.
Douglas MacArthur
LL.D.
Georgia O'Keefe
Litt.D.
Edgar E. Robinson
LL.D.
1941
Joseph E. Davies
LL.D.
Lynn Fontanne
Litt.D.
Herbert S. Gasser
Sc.D.
Alfred Lunt
Litt.D.
1940
David A. Crawford
LL.D.
Gertrude E. Slaughter
Litt.D.
John D. Wickhem
LL.D.
1939
Arthur J. Altmeyer
LL.D.
Daniel W. Hoan
LL.D.
Hans V. Kaltenborn
LL.D.
Roy C. Muir
Eng.D.
Olav, Crown Prince of Norway
LL.D.
1938
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.
LL.D.
Katharine F. Lenroot
LL.D.
Harry Steenbock
Sc.D.
1937
Martha McChesney Berry
LL.D.
Harry A. Curtis
Sc.D.
William O. Hotchkiss
LL.D.
Jens Jensen
Litt.D.
William S. Kies
M.S.
David Riesman
LL.D.
1936
John E. Baker
LL.D.
Isaiah Bowman
LL.D.
Rezeau Brown
Sc.D.
Katharine Cornell
Litt.D.
Joseph Erlanger
Sc.D.
Douglas S. Freeman
Litt.D.
Francis J. Haas
LL.D.
Lewis R. Jones
Sc.D.
Grant Wood
Litt.D.
1935
Gilbert A. Bliss
Sc.D.
James B. Conant
Sc.D.
Arthur H. Curtis
LL.D.
Cordell Hull
LL.D.
Frederic L. Paxton
Litt.D.
Thomas D. Thacher
LL.D.
1934
John A. Carpenter
Mus.D.
Karl T. Compton
LL.D.
Robert B. Goodman
LL.D.
William S. Kies
M.A.
Baron MacMillian
LL.D.
Albert R. Mann
LL.D.
John L. Savage
Sc.D.
Karl Young
Litt.D.
1933
James Aston
Sc.D.
Rufus C. Dawes
LL.D.
Evan A. Evans
LL.D.
Ransom A. Moore
M.S.
Walter C. Mendenhall
Sc.D.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Litt.D.
Frances Perkins
LL.D.
Henry C. Taylor
LL.D.
1932
Grace Abbott
LL.D.
Charles R. Bardeen
LL.D.
William A. Craigie
Litt.D.
Camillo von Klentze
Litt.D.
Daniel W. Mead
LL.D.
O. F. von Prittwitz und Gaffron
LL.D.
1931
Irving W. Bailey
Sc.D.
Charles E. Brown
M.A.
John R. Commons
LL.D.
Thomas J. Walsh
LL.D.
Harry F. Ward
LL.D.
1930
Alanson B. Houghton
LL.D.
Kemper K. Knapp
LL.D.
Arthur Peabody
Litt.D.
William Z. Ripley
LL.D.
Marvin B. Rosenberry
LL.D.
Harry L. Russell
Sc.D.
Lloyd R. Smith
LL.D.
1929
Zona G. Breese
Litt.D.
Walter W. Cook
LL.D.
Carl von Marr
Litt.D.
Walter C. Murray
LL.D.
Ole E. Rolvaag
Litt.D.
Chester H. Thordarson
M.A.
1928
George I. Haight
M.A.
Frederick Klaeber
Litt.D.
Gilbert N. Lewis
Sc.D.
Charles A. Lindbergh
LL.D.
Israel Shrimski
M.A.
John C. White
M.E.
1927
Maude Adams
Litt.D.
