Doctors of Philosophy honoris causa
2022
To be published after the ceremony
2021
- Dr. Mark Alexander
- Prof. Mary-Claire King
- Prof. Philip Pincus
- Sir András Schiff
- Dr. John Schwartz
- Vera Schwartz
- Prof. Otmar D. Wiestler
2020
- Dr. Uriel Arnon
- Cathy Beck
- Prof. Sir Marc Feldmann
- Shirin Natour Hafi
- Gideon Hamburger
- Prof. Dame Carol V. Robinson
- Meir Shalev
2019
- Rebecca Boukhris
- Prof. Jonathan Dorfan
- Mario Fleck
- Alex Levac
- Prof. Raphael Mechoulam
- Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum
- President Reuven Rivlin
- Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
2018
- Ido Dissentshik
- Dr. Fabiola Gianotti
- Ellen Merlo
- Sir Paul Nurse
- Eric Stupp
- Prof. Marc Van Montagu
2017
- Peter Jenni
- Milvia Perinot
- Yoni Rechter
- Heather Reisman
- Gerald W. Schwartz
- Mortimer B. Zuckerman
2016
- Jean-Pierre Changeux
- Stephen Grand
- Agi Mishol
- Michael O. Rabin
- Sami Sagol
- Laura Wolfson Townsley
2015
- Shlomo Bar
- Miel de Botton
- Claude Cohen-Tanoudji
- Serge Haroche
- Pascal Olivier Mantoux
- Lord Winston
2014
- Marvin Cohen
- Stanley Fischer
- Lia Koenig
- Jesse Roth
- Simon Schama
- Herbert Winter
2013
- David Azrieli
- Daniel Barenboim
- Harry B. Gray
- Bertrand J. Halperin
- David Lopatie
- Helga Nowotny
- Luis Stillmann
2012
- Justice Dorit Beinisch
- René Braginsky
- Ronald Daniel
- Shimshon Harel
- George Klein
2011
- Chava Alberstein
- Klaus von Klitzing
- Martin D. Paisner
- Murray Perahia
- Alexander Pines
- Baroness Ariane de Rothschild
2010
- Pennie Abramson
- Shlomo Avineri
- Patricia Gruber
- Yossie Hollander
- Hannah Kehat
- Abraham B. Yehoshua
2009
- Gila Almagor
- Abraham Ben-Naftali
- Solo Dwek
- Michael E. Fisher
- David Grossman
- Hilda Lewis
- Shimon Peres
- Stef Wertheimer
2008
- Dvora Ben Dror
- Aaron Ciechanover
- Ernst Cramer
- Robert Drake
- Peter Goldreich
- Rabbi David Hartmen
- Donald Kirk
- Lorry I. Lokey
- Helmut Schwarz
- Joshua (Yehoshua) Sobol
- Elie Wiesel
2007
- Arie Lova Eliav
- Avram Hershko
- Eric R. Kandel
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
- Jehuda Reinharz
2006
- Yevgeny Arye
- Joseph Gurwin
- Prof. Herbert Jäckle
- Morris Kahn
- Jeanne Nissim
- Amos Oz
2005
- L. Yehuda Bronicki
- Prof. Charles A. Dinarello, MD
- Sir Harry Djanogly, CBE
- Justice Dalia Dorner
- Prof. Joshua Jortner
2004
- Robert A. Belfer
- Justice Miriam Ben-Porat
- Stanley Chais
- Prof. Sir Alan R. Fersht, FRS
- Prof. Richard M. Karp
- Senator Mitch McConnell
- Ohad Naharin
2003
- Eli Amir
- Prof. Allen J. Bard
- Prof. Sir Michael V. Berry
- Prof. Mildred S. Dresselhaus
- Alan Fischer
- Prof. Albert J. Libchaber
2002
- Dr. Rita R. Colwell
- Abraham M. Goldwasser
- Dani Karavan
- Joshua Maor
- Hubert S. Markl
- Theodore H. Teplow
2001
- Robert H. Asher
- Lawrence S. Blumberg
- William M. Davidson
- Sidney D. Drell
- Maurizio M. Dwek
- Rabbi Abraham E. Firer
- Arnold J. Levine
- Maxime Schwartz
- Alice Shalvi
- Evelyn Tenenbaum
2000
- Yehuda Amichai
- Erica Drake Mayer
- Lea Nikel
- Raoul de Picciotto
- Wolf Bernhard Servatius
1999
- Shulamit Aloni
- Akito Arima
- Nella Benoziyo
- Maks Birnbach
- Stuart Eizenstat
- Helmut Kohl
- Riccardo Muti
- Bert Sakmann
- Leon Schidlow
- Naomi Shemer
1998
- David D. Baltimore
- Edith Cresson
- Jean-Marie Lehn
- Manfred D. Moross
- Alexandra Poljakoff-Mayber
- Albert Willner
1997
- Josef Burg
- Shoshana Damari
- Martin S. Kimmel
- Walter Kohn
- Sara Mayer
- Robert Neter
1996
- Ted Arison
- Berthold Beitz
- Sir Aaron Klug
- Orna Porat
- Hans Zacher
1995
- Gershon Kekst
- Melvin Schwartz S.
- Maxine Singer
- Donald Sussman
1994
- Y. Leon Benoziyo
- Samy Cohn
- Eli Hurvitz
- Simone Mallah
- Rowland Schaefer
- Ezer Weizman
- Alejandro Zaffaroni
1993
- George S. Hammond
- James Heineman
- Ilse Katz
- Charles Mérieux
- Shalom Rosenfeld
- The Hon. David Sieff
1992
- Norman D. Cohen
- Jack D. Dunitz
- Martha Laub
- Alexander Rich
- Harry Zvi Tabor
- The Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven
1991
- Azaria Alon
- H. Thomas Beck
- Hurbert Curien
- Jean Dausset
- Uzia Galil
- Lilian Hertzberg
- Dan Mayer
- Hans A. Weidenmüller
1990
- Lester Crown
- Adolf Ebner
- Henny Gestetner
- Abraham Ginzburg
- Maurice Goldschleger
- N. Avrion Mitchison
- Sir David C. Phillips
- Yizhar Smilanski
1989
- Aharon Barak
- John Polyani
- Baruj Benacerraf
- Heinz F. Riesenhuber
- Robert W. Kasten
1988
- Mildred Cohn
- Israel Pollak
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
- Earl R. Stadman
- Chaim Gvati
- Lord Wolfson
- Francois Mitterand
1987
- Victor Brailovsky
- Sir James Lighthill
- Ilona Feher
- George P. Schultz
- Martin D. Kamen
- Meir Shamgar
- Helen Kimmelman (Kimmel)
- Frank H. Westheimer
1986
- Teddy Kollek
- Moshe Porath
- Leo Picard
- Bernard Pullman
1985
- Ayala Zacks Abramov
- Samuel W. Lewis
- Vivien Clore Duffield
- Charles Lubin
- Francois Gros
- Benjamin Mazar
- Hans Hilger Haunschild
- Vladimir Prelog
- Chaim Herzog
- Ronald Reagan
- Niels K. Jerne
- Steven Weinberg
- James F. Kay
- Richard von Weizsacker
1984
- Abraham Harman
- Frank Press
- Ludwig Jesselson
- John Ross
- Daniel Koshland
- Heinz Staab
- Yitzhak Navon
- Lewis Thomas
1983
- Mordecai Ardon
- Zubin Mehta
- Raymond Aron
- Francis H. Ruddle
- Ezra Danin
- Andrei Dimitrievich Sakharov
- Ernest I. Japhet
1982
- Yehuda Assia
- Elvin A. Kabat
- Haim Cohen
- Alfred Kastler
- Regina Feigl
- Severo Ochoa
- Francois Jacob
- Shmuel Sambursky
1981
- Angel Faivovich
1980
- Rudolf M. Bloch
- Ephraim Urbach
- Jimmy Carter
- Veit Wyler
- Morris L. Levinson
1979
- Sir Derek Barton
- Derrick Kleeman
- Menachem Begin
- Hermann Mayer
- Josef Cohn
- Joseph Meyerhoff
- Aryeh Dvoretzky
- Sol Spiegelman
- Sir Bernard Katz
1978
- Hans A. Bethe
- Rita Levi-Montalcini
- Aage Bohr
- Abraham Levin
- Adolpho Bloch
- Marshall W. Nirenberg
1977
- Marc Chagall
- Harold Wilson
- Henry Kissinger
1976
- Maurice Boukstein
- Murray B. Koffler
- Paul J. Flory
- Artur Rubinstein
- Gerhard Herzberg
- Ada Sereni
- Ephraim Katzir
- Simone Veil
1975
- Arnold R. Meyer
1973
- Willy Brandt
1964
- Meyer W. Weisgal