| Name of recipient
|
Year
|
Note
|
| Edwin Link |
1981 |
Inventor and father of simulation technology
|
| David de Wied |
1981 |
Discoverer of neuropeptides
|
| Charles Singleton |
1981 |
Professor emeritus of humanistic studies, Johns Hopkins University
|
| Paul Oskar Kristeller |
1982 |
Professor of philosophy, Columbia University
|
| David Soyer, Arnold Steinhardt and Michael Tree |
1983 |
Founding members of the Guarneri Quartet
|
| René Wellek |
1983 |
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Yale University
|
| Thomas G. Bergin |
1984 |
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages, Yale University
|
| Abraham J. Briloff |
1984 |
Professor of accounting and financial ethicist
|
| Helen Mary Caldicott |
1984 |
Physician and activist
|
| Leroy "Slam" Stewart |
1984 |
Jazz musician
|
| Kenneth Clark |
1985 |
Psychologist
|
| Roald Hoffmann |
1985 |
Theoretical chemist and 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient
|
| Winfred Lehmann |
1985 |
Ashbel Smith Professor of Linguistics and German Languages, University of Texas
|
| Eliezer Wiesel |
1985 |
Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Boston University
|
| Morton Bloomfield |
1986 |
Professor emeritus of English and American literature and language, Harvard University
|
| Stephen Jay Gould |
1986 |
Evolutionary biologist and historian of science
|
| Paul D. Maclean (MD) |
1986 |
Intramural research scientist, National Institute of Mental Health
|
| Josef Skvorecky |
1986 |
Professor of English, University of Toronto
|
| Brian Urquhart |
1986 |
Under-secretary of the United Nations
|
| Manfred Lachs |
1987 |
Judge on the International Court of Justice
|
| Bernard Lewis |
1987 |
Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
|
| John Hope Franklin |
1988 |
Historian
|
| Alvin Liberman |
1988 |
Speech psychologist
|
| Aryeh Neier |
1988 |
Human rights activist and founder of Americas Watch
|
| Lewis Branscomb |
1989 |
Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
|
| Majid Khadduri |
1989 |
Distinguished research professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
|
| Lofti Zadeh |
1989 |
Professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, University of California, Berkeley
|
| Byllye Avery |
1990 |
Founder and director, National Black Women's Health Network
|
| Leszek Kolakowski |
1990 |
Senior research fellow, All Souls' College, Oxford University
|
| Jacob Lawrence |
1990 |
Professor of art, University of Washington
|
| Andrew Rutherford |
1990 |
Warden, Goldsmiths' College, University of London
|
| Gunther Wilke |
1990 |
Director, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
|
| Jerome Frank |
1991 |
Psychiatrist and psychologist, professor emeritus, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
|
| Niara Sudarkasa |
1991 |
African-American anthropologist and educator
|
| Jack Kilby |
1992 |
Nobel Laureate and co-inventor of the integrated circuit
|
| Johnnetta Cole |
1993 |
President, Spelman College
|
| Deborah Tannen |
1993 |
Linguist and author
|
| Andrew Bergman |
1994 |
Film producer
|
| John Cairns |
1994 |
University distinguished professor of environmental biology, director of University Center for Environmental Studies and Hazardous Materials Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
|
| Mary Lowe Good |
1994 |
Senior vice president for technology, Allied SIgnal, Inc.
|
| Matthew McHugh |
1994 |
Counselor to the president, The World Bank
|
| William Julius Wilson |
1994 |
Director and Lucy Flower University Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Chicago, Center for the Study of Urban Inequity
|
| Ilya Prigogine |
1995 |
Noble Laureate in chemistry
|
| Art Spiegelman |
1995 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist
|
| Chinua Achebe |
1996 |
Author
|
| Shirley Chater |
1996 |
Educator and administrator; Commissioner, Social Security Administration
|
| Willhelm Gispen |
1996 |
Leading scholar on the functioning of the brain
|
| Donald Westlake |
1996 |
Author of over 100 novels and non-fiction titles
|
| Linda Gordon |
1997 |
Historian
|
| Maxine Greene |
1997 |
Scholar and teacher in the philosophy and history of education, curriculum studies, teacher education and aesthetic education
|
| Walter Isard |
1997 |
Economist and founder of the discipline of peace science
|
| Arnold Levine |
1997 |
Molecular biologist and discoverer of tumor suppressant protein
|
| Israel Rosefsky |
1997 |
Pediatrician and philanthropist
|
| Rodrigo Carazo |
1998 |
Former president of United Nationals, established University of Peace
|
| Susan Clark-Johnson |
1998 |
President/publisher, journalist, editor, Gannett
|
| C. Peter Magrath |
1998 |
President of NASULGC, former president of Binghamton University, former University of Minnesota president
|
| George Olah |
1998 |
Scholar, researcher in superacids and carbocation chemistry
|
| Robert W. Fogel |
1999 |
Economic historian and early advocate of using quantitative methods in history
|
| Mary Francis Berry |
1999 |
Former chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
|
| David Komansky |
1999 |
Chairman of the board and COO of Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner Smith
|
| Kurt Masur |
1999 |
Music director, New York Philharmonic
|
| R. Nicholas Burns |
2000 |
U.S. Ambassador to Greece
|
| Steve Kroft |
2000 |
Television journalist
|
| Shari Lawrence Pfleeger |
2000 |
President, Systems Software, Inc., founder of Howard University's Center for Research in Evaluating Software, alumna 1970
|
| Paul Reiser |
2000 |
Author, actor and comedian, alumnus 1977
|
| Loretta Ford |
2001 |
Founding dean and dean emeritus, University of Rochester, leader/pioneer in nurse practitioner model
|
| Stewart Paperin |
2001 |
Former Executive vice president, Open Society Institute, alumnus 1968 and 1969
|
| Robert Pinsky |
2001 |
Poetry editor, 1997-2000 Poet Laureate
|
| Freeman Hrabowski III |
2002 |
President, University of Maryland, African-American leader, nationally acclaimed educator
|
| Gary Kunis |
2002 |
Former vice president and chief science officer for Cisco Systems, Inc
|
| Elmar Oliveira |
2002 |
Classical violinist
|
| Kemal Guruz |
2003 |
President, Turkish Council of Higher Education
|
| Dean Kamen |
2003 |
Engineer, entrepreneur, inventor
|
| Alan MacDiarmid |
2003 |
2000 Novel Prize winner in chemistry, Blanchard Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
|
| Mark A. Zurack |
2003 |
Former executive vice president, Goldman Sachs
|
| Sydney Pollack |
2003 |
Author and film producer
|
| Edgar Bronfman |
2004 |
President, World Jewish Congress, chairman of International Board of Governors for Hillel
|
| Eugene DeLoatch |
2004 |
Dean of School of Engineering, Morgan State University, first African- American president of American Society for Engineering
|
| Charlene Kahlor Kramer |
2004 |
Vice president of Corporate Letters Communications, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), alumna 1973
|
| Ezra Laderman |
2004 |
President, American Music Center
|
| Ada Sue Hinshaw |
2005 |
Founding director of the National Institute for Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), dean of School of Nursing, University of Michigan
|
| Evelyn Glennie |
2006 |
Scottish percussionist and timpanist
|
| Erwin Goldberg |
2006 |
Professor of biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology, Northwestern University, alumnus 1956
|
| Linda Greenhouse |
2006 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
|
| Allan Lyons |
2007 |
Accountant, financier, educator and business leader
|
| J. David Singer |
2007 |
Political scientist and educator
|
| Ronald Ehrenberg |
2008 |
Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, Cornell University, alumnus 1966
|
| Richard Felder |
2008 |
Hoechst Celanse Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
|
| Theodore Kooser |
2008 |
Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry
|
| Raymond Osterhout |
2008 |
Philanthropist, retired group vice president and underwriting and marketing manager, Swiss Reinsurance Corporation
|
| David Sedaris |
2008 |
Author and humorist
|
| Geoffrey Canada |
2009 |
Social welfare administrator, educator and writer
|
| Sandra Day O'Connor |
2009 |
United States Supreme Court Justice
|
| Mario Paniccia |
2009 |
Director, Photonics Technology Lab, Corporate Technology Group, Intel Corporation, alumnus 1988
|
| Lawrence Schorr |
2009 |
Attorney and philanthropist, alumnus 1975 and 1977
|
| Ahmet Acar |
2010 |
Rector/professor, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
|
| Steven Bloom |
2010 |
Philanthropist, financial analyst, alumnus 1978
|
| Terrence Keane |
2011 |
Professor and vice chairman in psychiatry, Boston University, alumnus 1976 and 1979
|
| David Orr |
2011 |
Paul Sears Distinguished Professor and chair, environmental studies program at Oberlin College
|
| Owen C. Pell |
2011 |
International litigator, alumnus 1980
|
| James Carrigg |
2012 |
Watson School founder and retired president, chairman and CEO of New York State Electric & Gas
|
| Steve Karmen |
2012 |
Composer, musician, arranger, author
|
| Paul Turovsky |
2012 |
Philanthropist, founding partner, True North Management Group, alumnus 1973
|
| Mary Wakefield |
2012 |
Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration
|
| Marilyn Link |
2013 |
Pioneering Pilot, educator, philanthropist and managing director of an oceanographic institute
|
| Voya Markovich |
2013 |
Leading expert in advanced electronics packaging
|
| Nancy Wackstein |
2013 |
Preeminent social worker and champion of the homeless and disadvantaged, alumnus 1973
|
| George Whitesides |
2013 |
Prolific and influential scientist in chemistry, materials science, physics and engineering
|
| Carol C. Harter
|
2014
|
Academic administrator and English language editor, alumnus 1964
|
| Eric P. Schwartz
|
2014
|
Public policy scholar, public servant and international humanitarian and human rights expert, alumnus 1979
|
| Deborah Gray White
|
2014
|
Academian and influential historian of African-American and American women's history, alumnus 1971
|
| Horace Wood Gibson, Jr.
|
2015
|
Renaissance man and educator
|
| Jason Randolph Stanley
|
2015
|
Educator and philosopher
|
| Tien Wu
|
2015
|
CEO and member of the board of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
|
| John R. Bartle
|
2016
|
Dean of the college of Public Affairs and Community Service, and professor of public administration, University of Omaha, Nebraska
|
| Marc D. Lawrence
|
2016
|
Screenwriter, producer, director, alumnus 1981
|
| Nathan Englander
|
2017
|
Award-winning author, playwright and translator, alumnus 1991
|
| Anthony I. Kornheiser
|
2017
|
Sports journalist and commentator, alumnus 1971
|
| Geraldine MacDonald
|
2017
|
Pioneer of internet communications, alumnus 1968
|
| Sergio Rapu Haoa
|
2017
|
Archeologist and cultural ambassador for Rapa Nui, Chile
|
| Ali Çarkoğlu
|
2018
|
Educator, higher education administrator and political commentator, alumnus 1994
|
| Asunción "Sunny" C. Hostin
|
2018
|
Columnist, social commentator and multi-platform journalist, alumnus 1990
|
| Aaron Mair
|
2018
|
Founder of the environmental justice movement, alumnus 1984
|
| Balakrishna Gopalan Iyer
|
2019
|
Business leader and educator, alumnus 2000
|
| Patricia A. Saunders
|
2019
|
Humanitarian and student-athlete advocate, alumnus 1965
|
| Howard Unger
|
2019
|
Financial innovator and world peace advocate, alumnus 1982
|
| Robert H. Swan
|
2022
|
Leader of several online corporations, alumnus 1985
|
| Yasmin L. Hurd
|
2024
|
Studied neurobiology of substance use and associated disorders
|
| Lee Ranaldo
|
2024
|
Musician who co-founded the band Sonic Youth
|
| Alexander S. Vindman
|
2024
|
Former colonel in the U.S. Army
|
| Govindasamy Viswanathan
|
2024
|
Founded the Vellore Institute of Technology
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