Awards and Honors
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1969)
- Ernest O. Lawrence Award (1966)
- Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award (1962)
- Albert Einstein Medal (2005)
- Yale University — D.Sc (h.c.), 1959
- American Physical Society — Dannie Heineman Prize, 1959
- University of Chicago — Sc.D.(h.c.), 1967
- Franklin Medal, 1967
- National Academy of Sciences — John J. Carty Award, 1968
- University of Illinois — Sc.D.(h.c.), 1968
- Wesleyan University — Sc.D.(h.c.), 1968
- Research Corporation Award, 1969
- University of Turin, Italy — Honorary Doctorate, 1969
- University of Utah — Sc.D.(h.c.), 1970
- Columbia University — Sc.D.(h.c.), 1977
- University of Cambridge, England — Sc.D.(h.c.), 1980
- United Nations Environment Programme Roll of Honor for Environmental Achievement (The Global 500), 1988
- World Federation of Scientists — Erice Prize, 1990
- University of Oxford, England — D.Sc.(h.c.), 1992
- Southern Illinois University — Sc.D.(h.c.), 1993
- University of Florida — Sc.D.(h.c.), Doctorate of Natural Resources, 1994
- Southern Methodist University — Sc.D.(h.c.), 1999
- American Humanist Association - Humanist of the Year, 2005
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