Honorary Doctorates

Wageningen University awards honorary doctorates at each anniversary. The honorary doctorates are given tor outstanding researchers with an international reputation in one or more scientific fields in which Wageningen University is active. Also the impact of their research to society, should comply with the role and the position of Wageningen University as knowledge institution.

2018

  • Prof. Katrina Brown, Professor of Social Science at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom
  • Prof. Carl Folke, Professor in Natural Resource Management, Founder and Science Director of Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and Director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Stockholm, Sweden
  • Prof. Eugene Koonin, NIH Distinguished Investigator, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Adjunct Professor of Bioinformatics, Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, USA
  • Prof. Fusuo Zhang, Professor of Plant Nutrition Science, Director of the College for Resources, Environment and Food Security, China Agricultural University, China

2013

  • Prof. G.D. Farquhar, distinguished professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australië
  • Prof. R.E. Lenski, professor Microbial ecology at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, VS
  • Prof. B.J. Staskawicz, professor Plant biology and microbiology at the University of California in Berkeley, VS

2008

  • Prof. David.C. Baulcombe, Royal Society Research Professor and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge
  • Prof. Daniel Pauly, professor at the Fisheries Centre of the University of British Columbia

2003

  • Prof.dr. W. Willet
  • Prof. dr. R. McNeill Alexander
  • Dr R.E.F. Leakey

2000:

  • Prof. P.S. Dasgupta
  • Dr P. PinstrupAndersen
  • Dr N.S. Scirmshaw

1998:

  • Prof. G.E. Likens (USA)
  • Prof. C. Somerville (USA)

1993:

  • Prof. O.R. Fennema (USA)
  • Dr. P.E. Kenmore (USA)
  • Prof. O. Soemarwoto (Indonesia)
  • Dr. J. Thirsk (England)
  • Ir. Th. Quene (Netherlands)

1988:

  • Ing. A. Kemp
  • Prof. M.S. Swaminathan
  • Prof. J. de Veer

1983

  • ms.Gelia T. Castillo
  • J. Gremmen
  • H. de Bakker

1978

  • ms. E. Boserup
  • J.C.I. Dooge

1976

  • R.F. Smith
  • G. Veenstra

1974

  • P.B. de Boer
  • D.J. Maltha

1970

  • A.H. Boerma

1968

  • N.G. Addens
  • J. Boldingh
  • M.L. Dantwala
  • A.W. van de Plassche

1963

  • J.F. van den Brande
  • T.C. Oudemans

1958

  • A.G. Dumon

1956

  • S.L. Mansholt

1953

  • F.P. Mesu

1948

  • Lord John Boyd Orr
  • S.L. Louwes
  • S. Smeding

1947

  • E.H. Krelage

1945

  • D.S. Huizinga

1938

  • Jhr. S. van Citters
  • B. Sjollema

1928

  • H. de Vries
  • S. Leefmans
  • J.H. Aberson

1926

  • 1926 A.E. Mayer

1921

  • L. Broekema

1918

  • F.E. Posthuma
  • P.van Hoek


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