Awards and Honors
1981: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
1984: Weizmann Prize in Physics
1984: Rothschild Prize in Physics
1989: Israel Prize in exact science
1990: Elected to the National Academy of Science of Israel
1991: The Elliott Cresson Medal – The Franklin Institute
1992: Honorary Doctor of Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
1993: Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
1993: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of South Carolina, USA
1995: Hewlett–Packard Europhysics Prize
1997: Honorary Doctor of Science, Bristol University, UK
1998: Wolf Prize in Physics
1999: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006: EMET Prize in Exact Science
In 2009, the information service Thomson Reuters named Aharonov as leading candidate for the 2009 Nobel prize in physics, based on the influence of his work on quantum physics.
2010: National Medal of Science, awarded and presented by President Barack Obama.
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