Awards and Honors
- Sydney Award for the best essays of 2011, awarded for "The Accidental Universe," Harper's Magazine, December 2011
- Finalist for 2000 National Book Award in fiction for The Diagnosis
- Finalist for the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award for A Sense of the Mysterious
- Association of American Publishers' Award for best science book of 1990 for Origins
- Literary Light of the Boston Public Library
- Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Bowdoin College in 2005
- Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Memphis College of Arts in 2006
- Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from the University of Maryland, Baltimore Country in 2006
- Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell in 2010
- Birthday Salute by Garrison Keillor on NPR, November 28, 2008
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1996 Andrew Gemant Award of the American Institute of Physics for linking science and the humanities
- Distinguished Alumni Award of the California Institute of Technology in 2003
- Distinguished Arts and Humanities Medal for Literature of the Germantown Arts Alliance of Tennessee in 2003
- 2006 John P. McGovern Science and Society Award by Sigma Xi
- Gold Medal for humanitarian service to Cambodia, awarded by the government of Cambodia
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