Honors
- TIME magazine Man of the Year in 1960
- Elliott Cresson Medal in 1961
- Distinguished Fellow, Iowa Academy of Science in 1975
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1978
- National Medal of Science in 1987
- Crafoord Prize in 1989
- Vannevar Bush Award in 1991
- NASA's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994
- National Air and Space Museum Trophy in 2006
- Van Allen Probes (NASA mission, renamed from the Radiation Belt Storm Probes) in 2012
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