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| Year | Award |
| 2016 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2006 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2004 | NSF Career Grant |
| 2002 | James H. Simons Fellowship |
| 2001 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2000 | McMillian Award |
| 1999 | Ernst Bergmann Memorial Award |
| 1998 | Packard Fellowship |
| 1998 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2009 | American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 2008 | Outstanding Referees Award (APS) |
| 2002 | Guggenheim (J.S.) Fellowship |
| 1986 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1984 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| 1973 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2017 | Discovery Prize (SBU) |
| 2016 | DOE Early Career Award |
| 2013 | AFOSR Young Investigator Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2003 | Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences |
| 2000 | Humboldt Senior Research Awared |
| 1989 | Prize Javed Husain for Young Scientists |
| 1985 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| 1981 | Junir Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows |
| Year | Award |
| 2003 | CIC Academic Leadership Fellow |
| 2001 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1992 | General Electric Junior Faculty Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2004 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 1995 | Hungarian National Academy Member |
| 1979 | Knight of Sovereign Military Order of Malta |
| 1967 | Distinguished Faculty Research Fellowship, SUNY |
| Year | Award |
| 2025 | American Philosophical Society |
| 2023 | Copernicus Prize |
| 2023 | President's Distinguished Endowed Chair |
| 2022 | National Medal of Science |
| 2017 | Henry Draper Medal |
| 2017 | Nobel Prize in Physics |
| 2017 | Princess of Asturias Award |
| 2016 | Enrico Fermi Prize |
| 2002 | Klopsteck Memorial Award |
| 2002 | Member of the National Academy of Sciences |
| Year | Award |
| 2008 | IEEE Fellow |
| 2008 | Merit Award of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society |
| 2007 | American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 2007 | Free Electron Laser Prize |
| 2002 | Brookhaven Science and Technology Award |
| 1999 | IEEE/NPSS Accelerator Science and Technology Award |
| 1994 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2008 | Outstanding Referees Award (APS) |
| Year | Award |
| 2024 | Outstanding Teaching Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2005 | Honorary Degree from Ohio State University |
| 2003 | Wilbur Lucius Cross medal of the Yale Graduate School Alumni Assoc. |
| 2001 | Bethe (Hans A.) Prize |
| 1998 | Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa, Univ of Copenhagen |
| 1996 | Max Plank Medal of the German Physical Society |
| 1992 | Wetherill (John Price) Medal of the Franklin Institute |
| 1990 | Doctor, Honoris Causa, Univ of Birmingham |
| 1989 | Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (membership) |
| 1988 | Distinguished Professor |
| 1987 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| 1984 | Finnish Society of Science & Letters (honorary member) |
| 1982 | Bonner (Tom W.) Prize in Nuclear Physics |
| 1982 | Doctor, Honoris Causa, University of Helsinki |
| 1979 | Bohr (Neils) Institute Prize |
| 1978 | National Academy of Science (U.S.) |
| 1976 | American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellow |
| 1976 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1976 | Pregel Award (Boris), NY Academy of Sciences |
| 1966 | Silver Medal, University of Helsinki |
| 1964 | Royal Danish Academy Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2012 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2025 | Chancellor's Horizon Award |
| 2025 | Discovery Prize (SBU) |
| 2022 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| 2020 | NSF Career Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2021 | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fundamental Physics Innovation Convener Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2010 | NSF Career Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2002 | American Geophysical Union/U.S. Geological Survey - naming of de Zafra Ridge, Antarctica |
| 2002 | Man of the Year in Community, Three Village Times |
| 1987 | NSF Antartic Service Medal |
| 1970 | NRC Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Goddard Institute |
| Year | Award |
| 2022 | Distinguished Professor |
| 2021 | American Association of the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 2018 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities |
| 2014 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2019 | American Physical Society Max Delbruck Award in Biological Physics |
| 2014 | American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellow |
| 2012 | SUNY Distinguished Professor |
| 2008 | National Academy of Science (U.S.) |
| 1997 | Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Year | Award |
| 2002 | Optical Society of America Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2020 | Distinguished Professor |
| 2019 | Chancellor's Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities |
| 2016 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 1987 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1981 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2022 | NSF Career Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2011 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 1979 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1973 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2020 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2020 | New Horizon Award in Physics |
| 2015 | Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics |
| 2013 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| 2008 | NSF Career Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2002 | NASA Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2025 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities |
| 2020 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2010 | Department of Energy Early Career Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2015 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2025 | National Academy of Inventors |
| 2023 | Presidential Innovation Endowed Chair |
| 2017 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2002 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research |
| 1989 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1989 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2014 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities |
| 2008 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2008 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2008 | Outstanding Referees Award (APS) |
| 1998 | Student Life Award, SUNY SB |
| Year | Award |
| 1998 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1989 | Presidential Young Investigator |
| 1989 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 1989 | Merit Award for Teaching and Curriculum Development |
| Year | Award |
| 2016 | Russian Academy of Sciences (foreign member) |
| 2009 | Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Ohio University |
| 2001 | Panofsky (W.K.H.) Prize |
| 2001 | Visiting Scientist, Particle Physics& Astronomy Council, UK |
| 2000 | American Association of the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 2000 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2000 | Guggenheim (J.S.) Fellowship |
| 1997 | Distinguished Professor |
| 1997 | Exceptional Service Award, DOE |
| 1997 | Man of the Year in Science, Three Village Times |
| 1969 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2021 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2018 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2006 | Distinguished Teaching Professor |
| 2005 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1996 | President's and Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching |
| Year | Award |
| 2012 | DOE Early Career Award |
| 2010 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| 2008 | NSF Career Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2024 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities |
| 2011 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2009 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2000 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1999 | Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (DOE) |
| Year | Award |
| 2023 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2009 | American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 2008 | National Academy of Science (U.S.) |
| 2007 | Distinguished Professor |
| 2006 | Spokesperson of PHENIX, BNL |
| 2001 | SUNY Recognition Research in Science and Medicine |
| 1996 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 1995 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2003 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2002 | American Association of the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 2001 | Microbeam Analysis Society's Outstanding Young Scientist Award |
| 2000 | Optical Society of America Fellow |
| 1996 | International Dennis Gabor Award |
| 1996 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1992 | Presidential Faculty Fellow (from George Bush) |
| Year | Award |
| 1997 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1996 | Guggenheim (J.S.) Fellowship |
| 1991 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2022 | American Physical Society Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Award |
| 2018 | Dean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Mentoring by a Faculty Member |
| 2017 | American Association of the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 2016 | Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (shared with Super-Kamiokade collaboration and K2K/T2K collaboration) |
| 2015 | Distinguished Professor |
| 2014 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities |
| 2013 | Project Professor, Kavli Institute, University of Tokyo |
| 2013 | SUWA Prize (shared with J-PARC Neutrino Beam Group) |
| 2012 | Prix La Recherche (shared with T2K collaboration) |
| 2010 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2005 | Spanish Ministry of Science and Education Visiting Professor |
| 2003 | Academy of Teacher-Scholar Award (Stony Brook) |
| 2002 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1998 | Asahi Prize (shared with Super-Kamiokande Collaboration) |
| 1998 | Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship |
| 1998 | KEK Visiting Professor Fellowship |
| 1997 | Center of Excellence Award from Univ of Tokyo |
| 1994 | Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (DOE) |
| Year | Award |
| 2001 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1979 | National Sigma Xi Lecturer |
| 1975 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1973 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1967 | Senior Weizmann Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2001 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 1989 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1982 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2016 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching |
| Year | Award |
| 2021 | Academia Europaea |
| 2017 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities |
| 2013 | Humbold (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| 2010 | Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| 2006 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2005 | Emilio Segre Distinguished Scholar |
| 2005 | Sackler Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2021 | PECASE Presidential Early Career Award |
| 2018 | Distinguished Professor |
| Year | Award |
| 2005 | Compton Award (Advanced Photon Source) |
| 1995 | Distinguished Professor |
| 1988 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1988 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1985 | American Association of the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 1985 | Guggenheim (J.S.) Fellowship |
| 1980 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1976 | President's and Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching |
| 1972 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1970 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 1992 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1989 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| 1978 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 1993 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2022 | Godfrey Excellence in Teaching Award |
| 2022 | John S. Toll Endowed Award for Teaching Excellence |
| 2000 | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2022 | Tomassoni Chisesi Prize |
| 2018 | Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics |
| Year | Award |
| 2019 | Chancellor's Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities |
| 1998 | American Association of the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 1996 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2005 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2008 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2001 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2001 | President's and Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching |
| 1979 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Science Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2024 | Fullbright Scholar Award |
| 2002 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research |
| 1995 | Judge Francis Bergan Career Development Grant from Dudley Observatory |
| 1990 | Hubble Fellow from Space Telescope Science Institute |
| Year | Award |
| 2023 | American Astronomical Society (AAS) Fellow |
| 2015 | Bethe (Hans A.) Prize |
| 2013 | SUNY Distinguished Professor |
| 2001 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1999 | Guggenheim (J.S.) Fellowship |
| 1985 | Fullam (Ernest F.) Award from Dudley Observatory |
| 1982 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 1985 | American Association of the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 1970 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 1970 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2013 | Dean's Award for Excellence in Service in Graduate Teaching by a Faculty Member |
| 2008 | IEEE Fellow |
| 2004 | IEEE Council on Superconductivity Award |
| 2002 | Distinguished Professor |
| 1998 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1997 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1997 | Russian Metrological Academy (honorary member) |
| 1995 | Eminent Scientist, RIKEN, Japan |
| 1984 | Discovery Award, USSR |
| 1980 | USSR Minister of Higher Education Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2004 | American Physics Society Fellow |
| 2004 | FEL Prize |
| Year | Award |
| 2017 | Department of Energy Early Career Award |
| Year | Award |
| 1999 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2002 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2000 | American Association of the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2002 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1980 | Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (DOE) |
| Year | Award |
| 1997 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1971 | Fermi (Enrico) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2008 | Outstanding Referees Award (APS) |
| 2003 | Distinguished Professor |
| 2001 | Visiting Miller Professor, Univ of California Berkeley |
| 1999 | Heineman (Dannie) Prize for Mathematical Physics |
| 1973 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2002 | Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award Univ of Iowa |
| 1978 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1974 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2016 | Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (shared with Super-Kamiokade collaboration and K2K/T2K collaboration) |
| 2016 | Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (shared with Super-Kamiokade collaboration and K2K/T2K collaboration) |
| Year | Award |
| 2024 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2011 | NSF Career Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2004 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2002 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2000 | Fujitsu Quantum Device Award |
| 1998 | Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Honor Society (honorary member) |
| 1998 | Hispanic Heritage Award (Stony Brook) |
| 1998 | Principe de Asturias Prize for Science and Technology (Spain) |
| 1990 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1989 | Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (IBM) |
| Year | Award |
| 2014 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2008 | Outstanding Referees Award (APS) |
| 2000 | Optical Society of America Fellow |
| 1999 | Distinguished Teaching Professor |
| 1999 | Esther Hoffman Beller Medal Winner by Optica |
| 1997 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| 1986 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1974 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1974 | President's and Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching |
| Year | Award |
| 2005 | NASA Spitzer Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2024 | Distinguished Service Professor |
| 2017 | Chancellor's Award in Faculty Service |
| 2013 | American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 2010 | Hungarian Academy of Sciences Member |
| 2008 | Dean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Education by a Graduate Program Director |
| 2005 | Albert Szent-Gyorgi Fellowship (Hungary) |
| 2005 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2003 | President's and Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching |
| Year | Award |
| 2025 | Stony Brook Trustees Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 1990 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 1991 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1978 | President's and Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching |
| 1977 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2023 | Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics ((APS) |
| Year | Award |
| 1999 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2000 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1998 | Guggenheim (J.S.) Fellowship |
| 1994 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1992 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2008 | Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland |
| 2004 | BSA Distinguished Service Award |
| 2003 | Fellow of the (British) Institute of Physics |
| 2002 | Long Island Hall of Fame |
| 2002 | Moscow State University Honorary Ph.D. |
| 1992 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1992 | Distinguished Service Professor |
| 1983 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| 1967 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2002 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2025 | NSF Career Award |
| 2023 | Godfrey Excellence in Teaching Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2014 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2002 | Man of the Year in Science, Three Village Times |
| Year | Award |
| 2004 | Academy Prize for Physics, Academy of Sciences, Goettingen, Germany |
| 2004 | Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (DOE) |
| Year | Award |
| 2002 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2023 | Renaissance Endowed Chair in Theoretical Physics |
| 2022 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| 2022 | Simons Investigator Award |
| 2013 | Guggenheim (J.S.) Fellowship |
| 2006 | Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (DOE) |
| Year | Award |
| 1997 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2022 | Distinguished Professor |
| 2017 | Neuron Award for Contribution to Science |
| 2016 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities |
| 2016 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1991 | Guggenheim (J.S.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2008 | International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Ewald Prize |
| Year | Award |
| 2001 | Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (DOE) |
| Year | Award |
| 2020 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2007 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2025 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2022 | Distinguished Professor |
| 2017 | Award for Outstanding Faculty Service on Senate Library Services and Resources Committee |
| 2015 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities |
| 1994 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1973 | Proctor Award (Princeton) |
| 1971 | Herschel Award (Harvard) |
| 1971 | NSF Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 1971 | Woodrow Wilson Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2017 | Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics |
| 2008 | Outstanding Referees Award (APS) |
| 2005 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| 2004 | Dirac Medal, Univ. New South Wales |
| 2004 | Distinguished Professor |
| 1996 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2017 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities |
| Year | Award |
| 1987 | Fullam (Ernest F.) Award from Dudley Observatory |
| Year | Award |
| 2005 | NSF Center for Adaptive Optics "top ten paper author" |
| 2004 | Michelson Postdoctoral Fellowship (as mentor) |
| 2001 | NSF Center for Adaptive Optics Senior Member |
| Year | Award |
| 2005 | President's Award for Research & Scholarly Activities |
| 1996 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| 1993 | Kramer Professor, University of Utrecht |
| 1992 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 1999 | Distinguished Professor |
| 1996 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| 1996 | NATO Senior Scientist Award |
| 1996 | Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge |
| 1996 | Visiting Scientist Award United Kingdom Particle Phy/Ast Research Council |
| 1988 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2009 | IEEE Educational Activities Board Pre-University Educator Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2012 | American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 2006 | Distinguished Professor |
| 2006 | Editor in Chief of APS |
| 2000 | Argonne National Laboratory Fellow |
| 1999 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1999 | President's and Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching |
| 1987 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| 1984 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1984 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1978 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 1972 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2020 | Distinguished Professor |
| 2019 | Barrett Award |
| 2015 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities |
| 2011 | American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 1998 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1986 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2011 | American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 2004 | Distinguished Alumni Award, Univ. of Maryland |
| 2004 | Distinguished Professor |
| 2002 | J. J. Sakurai Prize |
| 1995 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1985 | Guggenheim (J.S.) Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 1972 | American Association of Physics Teachers Millikan Award |
| 1962 | Finke (Bernard H.) Award for Distinguished Teaching |
| Year | Award |
| 1976 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 1987 | Oersted Medal AAPT |
| 1983 | Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, Dept. of Army |
| 1973 | American Association of Physics Teachers Distinguished Service Award |
| 1973 | American Association of the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2019 | NSF Early Career Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2023 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2013 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2008 | Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship |
| 2006 | Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (DOE) |
| Year | Award |
| 2002 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Year | Award |
| 2012 | NSF Career Award |
| 2011 | US Atlas Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2022 | NSF Early Career Award |
| 2021 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2020 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2019 | Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (shared with S. Ferrara/CERN and D. Freedman/MIT) |
| 2016 | Ettore Majorana Gold Medal |
| 2010 | Dean's Award for Excellence in Service in Graduate Teaching by a Faculty Member |
| 2006 | Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (APS) |
| 2005 | Corresponding Member of the Austrian National Academy of Sciences |
| 2005 | Honorary Professor of the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, Austria |
| 2004 | Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion |
| 2001 | Distinguished Professor |
| 1997 | Visiting Schrodinger-Professor 1997 |
| 1994 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 1994 | Royal Dutch Academy of Science Corresponding Member |
| 1993 | Dirac Medal and Prize |
| 1985 | Teyler Professor of Physics at Leiden University 1985 - 1995 |
| Year | Award |
| 2024 | Distinguished Professor |
| 2021 | American Physical Society Fellow |
| 2006 | Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award |
| 2005 | Villum Kann Rasmussen Visiting Professor |
| 2001 | James H. Simons Fellowship |
| Year | Award |
| 2017 | Department of Energy Early Career Award |
| Year | Award |
| 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Commendation |
| 1992 | NASA-Goddard Certificate of Achievement |
| 1991 | Goddard Space Flight Center Certificate of Recognition |
| 1988 | Fullam (Ernest F.) Award from Dudley Observatory |
| Year | Award |
| 2016 | Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities |
| 2015 | Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2012 | American Physics Society Fellow |
| 2002 | American Physical Society DAMOP Best Dissertation |

