Leon Cooper - Memberships and Honors

Memberships and Honors

  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Member of the American Philosophical Society
  • Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Associate member of the Neurosciences Research Program
  • Research Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1959–1966)
  • Fellow of the Guggenheim Institute (1965–66)
  • Nobel Prize Recipient for Physics (1972)
  • Co-winner (with Dr. Schrieffer) of the Comstock Prize in Physics of the National Academy of Sciences (1968)
  • Received the Award of Excellence, Graduate Faculties Alumni of Columbia University
  • Received the Descartes Medal, Academie de Paris, Université René Descartes
  • Received the John Jay Award of Columbia College (1985)
  • Recipient of seven honorary doctorates

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