He was appointed to the Emeritus Staff in 1987.
He remains the Emeritus member of the board.
Few of the emeritus members came forward publicly.
Wang, the emeritus professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, was a researcher at Merck in the seventies.
Francis also paid tribute to his predecessor, the emeritus pope, Benedict XVI.
Her mother is the emeritus professor of library sciences at the University of Wisconsin.
At his death, Dr. Frei was the emeritus director and emeritus physician-in-chief of Dana-Farber.
"Families spent generations removing trees to practice agriculture, and we're up against that," said Dr. Garrett, the emeritus professor here.
Walter F. Kenny performed the ceremony at the Church of St. Augustine, where he is the emeritus pastor.
Edzard Ernst, the emeritus professor of alternative medicine, has been awarded the 2015 John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science.
The Pope also suggested that he may retire if he no longer has the strength to carry out his duties, similarly to the emeritus Pope Benedict XVI.
