James Van Allen - Honors

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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