Year |
Recipient |
Degree |
2024 |
Lawrence S. Bacow, Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel RamÃrez, Sylvester James Gates Jr., Jennie Chin Hansen, Joy Harjo-Sapulpa, Maria A. Ressa |
various |
2023 |
Jennifer A. Doudna, Thomas Jeffrey Hanks, Katalin Karikó, David Levering Lewis, Hugo Noé Morales Rosas, Michael Glenn Mullen |
various |
2022 |
José Ramón Andrés Puerta, Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern, Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, Martha Craven Nussbaum, Vicki Lynn Ruiz, Gloria Marie Steinem, William Julius Wilson |
various |
2021 |
Frances Hamilton Arnold, Martin Baron, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Salman Amin Khan, Margaret Hilary Marshall, Sebastião Salgado, Anna Deavere Smith |
various |
2019 |
Lonnie G. Bunch III, Ingrid Daubechies, Drew Faust, William Chester Jordan, Angela Merkel, David Jay Remnick, Emmanuel Saez, Marilyn Strathern, Wu Hung |
various |
2018 |
Sallie Watson Chisholm, Rita Dove, Harvey Vernon Fineberg, Ricardo Lagos, George Emanuel Lewis, Twyla Tharp, Wong Kar Wai |
various |
2017 |
Norman R. Augustine, Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe, Dame Judi Dench, Sandra M. Gilbert, James Earl Jones, Walter E. Massey, Michael Rabin, John Williams, Huda Y. Zoghbi, Mark Zuckerberg |
various |
2016 |
El Anatsui, Mary L. Bonauto, His Excellency Fernando Henrique Cardoso, David B. Davis, Elaine Fuchs, Arnold Rampersad, The Right Honourable Lord Martin Rees, Steven Spielberg, Judith Jarvis Thomson |
various |
2015 |
Svetlana Leontief Alpers, Robert M. Axelrod, Wallace S. Broecker, Linda B. Buck, Renée Fleming, Patricia Albjerg Graham, Denis Mukwege, Deval L. Patrick, Peter Salovey, Bryan Stevenson |
various |
2014 |
Isabel Allende, Michael Bloomberg, President George H.W. Bush, Aretha Franklin, Patricia King, Peter H. Raven, Seymour Slive, Joseph E. Stiglitz |
various |
2013 |
José Abreu, Partha Dasgupta, Donald R. Hopkins, Robert M. May, Thomas M. Menino, Elaine Pagels, C. Dixon Spangler, Jr., JoAnne Stubbe, Oprah Winfrey |
various |
2012 |
John Adams, K. Anthony Appiah, Gillian Beer, Walter Kohn, Wendy Kopp, John Lewis, Mario Molina, Fareed Zakaria |
various |
2011 |
Tim Berners-Lee, Plácido Domingo, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Dudley Herschbach, James R. Houghton, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Rosalind Krauss, John G.A. Pocock, David Satcher |
various |
2010 |
Thomas R. Cech, Renée Fox, Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Susan Lindquist, Thomas Nagel, David G. Nathan, Onora O’Neill, Richard Serra, David H. Souter, Meryl Streep |
various |
2009 |
Pedro Almodóvar, Steven Chu, Joan Didion, Wendy Doniger, Ronald M. Dworkin, Anthony S. Fauci, Sarah Hrdy, Robert S. Langer, Wynton Marsalis, Sidney Verba |
various |
2008 |
Karim Aga Khan, James P. Comer, Wen C. Fong, Eric R. Kandel, Damon J. Keith, Edward M. Kennedy, Gerda Lerner, John McCarthy, Janet Rowley, J.K. Rowling, Daniel Tosteson |
various |
2007 |
Daniel Aaron, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, William H. Gates, Conrad Harper, William F. Russell, Joan Wallach Scott, Robert Silvers, Lawrence H. Summers, Karen K. Uhlenbeck |
various |
2006 |
Francis Atiyah, Elizabeth Blackburn, Philip E. Converse, Philippe de Montebello, Shirley Ann Jackson, Jim Lehrer, Robert Parris Moses, Norman Ramsey, Leo Steinberg |
various |
2005 |
Mary Ellen Avery, David Baltimore, Caroline Walker Bynum, D. Ronald Daniel, John Lithgow, Quentin Skinner, Charles Marstiller Vest, Edward Witten |
various |
2004 |
Kofi Atta Annan, Margaret Atwood, John Michael Bishop, Robert Lee Carter, Suzanne Farrell, Daniel Kahneman, Frank Kermode, Shirley M. Tilghman, E.O. Wilson |
various |
2003 |
Gary S. Becker, Elliot Forbes, Norman C. Francis, Ellsworth Kelly, Mary-Claire King, Donald Knuth, Linda Nochlin, Philip Roth, Robert G. Stone, P. Roy Vagelos, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon |
various |
2002 |
Sydney Brenner, Peter Brown, Katherine Dunham, Albert Hirschman, Yuan T. Lee, Daniel P. Moynihan, Howard Raiffa, Mamphela Ramphele, Julius B. Richmond, Neil L. Rudenstine, Ruth J. Simmons, Bernard Williams |
various |
2001 |
John Ashbery, Ela Bhatt, Geoffrey Canada, Jürgen Habermas, Isabella Karle, Leon Kirchner, Alice Rivlin, Robert E. Rubin, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Richard A. Smith, Charles H. Townes |
various |
2000 |
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Noam Chomsky, Frank O. Gehry, Andrew S. Grove, Judith R. Hope, Katherine B. Loker, Maclyn McCarthy, Constance Baker Motley, Kenzaburo Oe, Seiji Ozawa, Amartya Sen |
various |