Faculty Awards and Prizes, by Award

A file grouping faculty by award, which is presented on this page, may be found here.

For awards grouped by recipient faculty member, please go here.

AFOSR Young Investigator Award Academia Europaea Academy Prize for Physics, Academy of Sciences, Goettingen, Germany Academy of Teacher-Scholar Award (Stony Brook) Albert Szent-Gyorgi Fellowship (Hungary) Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Honor Society (honorary member) American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow American Association of Physics Teachers Distinguished Service Award American Association of Physics Teachers Millikan Award American Astronomical Society (AAS) Fellow American Geophysical Union/U.S. Geological Survey - naming of de Zafra Ridge, Antarctica American Philosophical Society American Physical Society DAMOP Best Dissertation American Physical Society Fellow American Physical Society Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Award American Physical Society Max Delbruck Award in Biological Physics Argonne National Laboratory Fellow Asahi Prize (shared, Super-Kamiokande Collaboration) BSA Distinguished Service Award Barrett Award Bethe (Hans A.) Prize Bohr (Neils) Institute Prize Bonner (Tom W.) Prize in Nuclear Physics Bower Award and Prize in Science Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Brookhaven Science and Technology Award CIC Academic Leadership Fellow Center of Excellence Award from Univ of Tokyo Chair Blaise Pascal Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching Chancellor's Award/Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Activities Chancellor's Horizon Award College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award Compton Award (Advanced Photon Source) Copernicus Prize Corresponding Member of the Austrian National Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (APS) Dean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Education by a Graduate Program Director Dean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Mentoring by a Faculty Member Dean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Teaching by a Faculty Member Department of Energy Early Career Award Dirac Medal and Prize Dirac Medal, Univ. New South Wales Discovery Award, USSR Discovery Prize, SBU Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award Univ of Iowa Distinguished Alumni Award, Univ. of Maryland Distinguished Faculty Research Fellowship, SUNY Distinguished Professor

Distinguished Service Professor Distinguished Teaching Professor Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa, University of Copenhagen Doctor, Honoris Causa, University of Birmingham Doctor, Honoris Causa, University of Helsinki Editor in Chief of APS Einstein Professor Emilio Segre Distinguished Scholar Eminent Scientist, RIKEN, Japan Enrico Fermi Prize Ernst Bergmann Memorial Award Esther Hoffman Beller Medal Ettore Majorana Gold Medal Exceptional Service Award, DOE FEL Prize Fellow of the (British) Institute of Physics Fermi (Enrico) Fellowship Finke (Bernard H.) Award for Distinguished Teaching Finnish Society of Science & Letters (honorary member) Franklin (Benjamin) Medal Free Electron Laser Prize Fujitsu Quantum Device Award Fullam (Ernest F.) Award from Dudley Observatory General Electric Junior Faculty Fellow Goddard Space Flight Center Certificate of Recognition Godfrey Excellence in Teaching Award Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fundamental Physics Innovation Convener Award Guggenheim (J.S.) Fellowship Henry Draper Medal Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics Herschel Award (Harvard) Hispanic Heritage Award (Stony Brook) Honorary Degree from Chiao Tun University, Taiwan Honorary Degree from Ohio State University Honorary Degree from Princeton University Honorary Degree from SUNY, SB Honorary Degree from Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Honorary Degree from Washington College Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Ohio University Honorary Professor of the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, Austria Honorary Science Degree, Chinese Univ of Hong Kong Honorary Science Degree, Univ of Michigan Hubble 25th Anniversary Commendation Hubble Fellow from Space Telescope Science Institute Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Science Fellow Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award Hungarian National Academy Member ICPT Dirac Medal IEEE Council on Superconductivity Award IEEE Educational Activities Board Pre-University Educator Award IEEE Fellow IEEE/NPSS Accelerator Science and Technology Award International Dennis Gabor Award

International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Ewald Prize J. J. Sakurai Prize James H. Simons Fellowship Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship John S. Toll Endowed Award for Teaching Excellence Judge Francis Bergan Career Development Grant from Dudley Observatory Junior Fellow, Harward Society of Fellows KEK Visiting Professor Fellowship King Faisal International Prize for Science Klopsteg Memorial Award Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion Knight of Sovereign Military Order of Malta Kramer Professor, University of Utrecht Lars Onsager Prize (APS) Lenin Komsomol Prize Long Island Hall of Fame Man of the Year in Community, Three Village Times Man of the Year in Science, Three Village Times Max Plank Medal of the German Physical Society McMillian Award Merit Award for Teaching and Curriculum Development Merit Award of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Michelson Postdoctoral Fellowship (as mentor) Microbeam Analysis Society's Outstanding Young Scientist Award Moscow State University Honorary Ph.D. NASA Fellowship NASA Spitzer Fellowship NASA-Goddard Certificate of Achievement NATO Senior Scientist Award NRC Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Goddard Institute NSF Antartic Service Medal NSF Career Award NSF Career Grant NSF Center for Adaptive Optics "top ten paper author" NSF Center for Adaptive Optics Senior Member NSF Predoctoral Fellowship National Academy of Inventors National Academy of Science National Medal of Science National Sigma Xi Lecturer Neuron Award for Contribution to Science New Horizon Prize in Physics Nobel Prize Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (membership) Oersted Medal AAPT Onsager (Lars) Prize Optical Society of America Fellow Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, Dept. of Army Outstanding Faculty Award Outstanding Faculty Service Award on Senate Library Services and Resources Committee Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (DOE) Outstanding Referees Award (APS) Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (IBM)

Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge PECASE Presidential Early Career Award Packard Fellowship Panofsky (W.K.H.) Prize Pomeranchuk Prize Pontifical Academy of Sciences (membership) Pregel Award (Boris), NY Academy of Sciences President's Award for Research & Scholarly Activities President's Distinguished Endowed Chair President's and Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (DOE) Presidential Faculty Fellow (from George Bush) Presidential Innovation Endowed Chair Presidential Young Investigator Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics Principe de Asturias Prize for Science and Technology (Spain) Prix La Recherche (shared with T2K collaboration) Prize Javed Husain for Young Scientists Proctor Award (Princeton) Project Professor, Kavli Institute, University of Tokyo Provost's Outstanding Mentors Award Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics Renaissance Endowed Chair in Theoretical Physics Royal Danish Academy Fellow Royal Dutch Academy of Science Corresponding Member Royal Society (London) Membership Rumford Prize Russian Academy of Sciences (foreign member) Russian Metrological Academy (honorary member) SUNY Recognition Research in Science and Medicine SUWA Prize (Shared, with J-PARC Neutrino Beam Group) Sackler Fellow Senior Weizmann Fellow Silver Medal, University of Helsinki Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship Spanish Ministry of Science and Education Visiting Professor Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (shared with S. Ferrara/CERN and D. Freedman/MIT) Spokesperson of PHENIX, BNL Stony Brook Trustees Faculty Award Student Life Award, SUNY SB Teyler Professor of Physics at Leiden University 1985 - 1995 Tomassoni Chisesi Prize US Atlas Fellowship USSR Minister of Higher Education Award Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Villum Kann Rasmussen Visiting Professor Visiting Miller Professor, Univ of California Berkeley Visiting Schrodinger-Professor 1997 Visiting Scientist Award United Kingdom Particle Phy/Ast Research Council Visiting Scientist, Particle Physics& Astronomy Council, UK Wetherill (John Price) Medal of the Franklin Institute Wilbur Lucius Cross medal of the Yale Graduate School Alumni Assoc. Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

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Academia Europaea

Year	Recipient
2021	Dmitri Kharzeev

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Academy of Teacher-Scholar Award (Stony Brook)

Year	Recipient
2003	Chang Kee Jung

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Academy Prize for Physics, Academy of Sciences, Goettingen, Germany

Year	Recipient
2004	Norbert Pietralla

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AFOSR Young Investigator Award

Year	Recipient
2013	Thomas Allison

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Albert Szent-Gyorgi Fellowship (Hungary)

Year	Recipient
2005	Laszlo Mihaly

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Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Honor Society (honorary member)

Year	Recipient
1998	Emilio Mendez

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American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellow

Year	Recipient
2014	Kenneth Dill
2012	Alexander Zamolodchikov
1976	Gerald Brown

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American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

Year	Recipient
2021	Abhay Desphande
2017	Chang Kee Jung
2013	Laszlo Mihaly
2012	Gene Sprouse
2011	Peter Stephens
2011	George Sterman
2010	Dmitri Kharzeev
2009	Philip Allen
2009	Barbara Jacak
2007	Ilan Ben-Zvi
2002	Chris Jacobsen
2000	Paul Grannis
2000	Jack Marburger
1998	Vladmir Korepin
1997	Kenneth Dill
1985	Janos Kirz
1985	Linwood Lee
1973	Cliff Swartz

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American Association of Physics Teachers Distinguished Service Award

Year	Recipient
1973	Cliff Swartz

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American Association of Physics Teachers Millikan Award

Year	Recipient
1972	Arnold Strassenburg

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) Fellow

Year	Recipient
2023	James Lattimer

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American Geophysical Union/U.S. Geological Survey - naming of de Zafra Ridge, Antarctica

Year	Recipient
2002	Robert De Zafra

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American Philosophical Society

Year	Recipient
2025	Barry Barish

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American Physical Society DAMOP Best Dissertation

Year	Recipient
2002	Thomas Weinacht

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American Physical Society Fellow

Year	Recipient
2025	Neelima Sehgal
2024	Patrick Meade
2023	Derek Teaney
2021	Tom Hemmick
2021	Jacobus Verbaarschot
2020	Rouven Essig
2020	Marivi Fernandez-Serra
2020	Dominik Schneble
2016	Alexandre Abanov
2016	Axel Drees
2014	Abhay Deshpande
2014	Rosalba Perna
2012	Thomas Weinacht
2011	John Hobbs
2008	Alfred Goldhaber
2006	Dmitri Kharzeev
2005	Krishna Kumar
2005	Laszlo Mihaly
2004	Dmitri Averin
2004	Vladimir Litvinenko
2002	Chang Kee Jung
2002	Jack Marburger
2002	Michael Marx
2002	Steven Peggs
2002	Madappa Prakash
2002	Alexei Tsvelik
2001	Meigan Aronson
2001	Thomas Kuo
2001	James Lattimer
2001	C.N. Yang
2000	Paul Grannis
2000	Luis Orozco
2000	Alexander Zamolodchikov
1999	James Lukens
1999	Benjamin Ocko
1998	Vladimir Goldman
1998	Peter Stephens
1997	Jainendra Jain
1997	Konstantin Likharev
1997	Robert McCarthy
1996	Barbara Jacak
1996	Vladmir Korepin
1996	Edward Shuryak
1995	George Sterman
1994	Ilan Ben-Zvi
1994	Robert Shrock
1994	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen
1992	Peter Koch
1992	Peter Paul
1992	John Smith
1990	Emilio Mendez
1989	David Fossan
1988	Janos Kirz
1986	Philip Allen
1986	Harold Metcalf
1984	Gene Sprouse
1978	Robert McGrath
1976	Gerald Brown
1974	William Weisberger
1973	Peter Kahn
1970	Linwood Lee
1970	Juliet Lee-Franzini

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American Physical Society Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Award

Year	Recipient
2022	Chang Kee Jung

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American Physical Society Max Delbruck Award in Biological Physics

Year	Recipient
2019	Kenneth Dill

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Argonne National Laboratory Fellow

Year	Recipient
2000	Gene Sprouse

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Asahi Prize (shared, Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Year	Recipient
1998	Chang Kee Jung

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Barrett Award

Year	Recipient
2019	Peter Stephens

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Bethe (Hans A.) Prize

Year	Recipient
2015	James Lattimer
2001	Gerald Brown

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Bohr (Neils) Institute Prize

Year	Recipient
1979	Gerald Brown

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Bonner (Tom W.) Prize in Nuclear Physics

Year	Recipient
1982	Gerald Brown

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Bower Award and Prize in Science

Year	Recipient
1994	C.N. Yang

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Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Year	Recipient
2024	Alexander Zamolodchikov
2019	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen
2015	Chang Kee Jung
2015	Clark McGrew
2015	Michael Wilking

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Brookhaven Science and Technology Award

Year	Recipient
2002	Ilan Ben-Zvi

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BSA Distinguished Service Award

Year	Recipient
2004	Peter Paul

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Center of Excellence Award from Univ of Tokyo

Year	Recipient
1997	Chang Kee Jung

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Chair Blaise Pascal

Year	Recipient
2005	Alexander Zamolodchikov

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Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service

Year	Recipient
2017	Laszlo Mihaly

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Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research

Year	Recipient
2002	David Fossan
2002	Kenneth Lanzetta

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Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching

Year	Recipient
2016	Angela Kelly

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Chancellor's Award/Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Activities

Year	Recipient
2025	Marivi Fernandez-Serra
2024	John Hobbs
2019	Axel Drees
2019	Vladmir Korepin
2018	Abhay Desphande
2017	Dmitri Kharzeev
2017	Warren Siegel
2016	Martin Rocek
2016	Thomas Weinacht
2015	Robert Shrock
2015	Peter Stephens
2014	Alfred Goldhaber
2014	Chang Kee Jung

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Chancellor's Horizon Award

Year	Recipient
2025	Jennifer Cano

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CIC Academic Leadership Fellow

Year	Recipient
2003	Meigan Aronson

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College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award

Year	Recipient
2022	Jin Koda
2015	Hal Metcalf

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Compton Award (Advanced Photon Source)

Year	Recipient
2005	Janos Kirz

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Copernicus Prize

Year	Recipient
2023	Barry Barish

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Corresponding Member of the Austrian National Academy of Sciences

Year	Recipient
2005	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen

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Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences

Year	Recipient
2003	Lois Alvarez-Gaume

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Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (APS)

Year	Recipient
2023	Nikita Nekrasov
2006	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen
1999	Barry McCoy
1999	Alexander Zamolodchikov

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Dean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Education by a Graduate Program Director

Year	Recipient
2008	Laszlo Mihaly

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Dean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Mentoring by a Faculty Member

Year	Recipient
2018	Chang-Kee Jung

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Dean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Teaching by a Faculty Member

Year	Recipient
2013	Konstantin Likharev
2010	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen

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Department of Energy Early Career Award

Year	Recipient
2017	Anja Von Der Linden
2017	Marilena Loverde
2016	Thomas Allison
2012	Rouven Essig
2010	Marivi Fernandez-Serra

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Dirac Medal and Prize

Year	Recipient
1993	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen

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Dirac Medal, Univ. New South Wales

Year	Recipient
2004	Edward Shuryak

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Discovery Award, USSR

Year	Recipient
1984	Konstantin Likharev

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Discovery Prize, SBU

Year	Recipient
2025	Jennifer Cano
2017	Thomas Allison

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Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award Univ of Iowa

Year	Recipient
2002	Robert McGrath

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Distinguished Alumni Award, Univ. of Maryland

Year	Recipient
2004	George Sterman

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Distinguished Faculty Research Fellowship, SUNY

Year	Recipient
1967	Nandor Balazs

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Distinguished Professor

Year	Recipient
2024	Jacobus Verbaarschot
2022	Abhay Deshpande
2022	Abhay Deshpande
2022	Martin Rocek
2022	Robert Shrock
2020	Axel Drees
2020	Peter Stephens
2019	Alexander Zamolodchikov
2018	Dmitri Kharzeev
2015	Chang Kee Jung
2013	James Lattimer
2012	Kenneth Dill
2007	Barbara Jacak
2006	Gene Sprouse
2004	Edward Shuryak
2004	George Sterman
2003	Barry McCoy
2002	Konstantin Likharev
2001	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen
1999	Philip Solomon
1997	Paul Grannis
1995	Janos Kirz
1988	Gerald Brown

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Distinguished Service Professor

Year	Recipient
2024	Laszlo Mihaly
1992	Peter Paul

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Distinguished Teaching Professor

Year	Recipient
2006	Tom Hemmick
1999	Harold Metcalf

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Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa, University of Copenhagen

Year	Recipient
1998	Gerald Brown

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Doctor, Honoris Causa, University of Birmingham

Year	Recipient
1990	Gerald Brown

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Doctor, Honoris Causa, University of Helsinki

Year	Recipient
1982	Gerald Brown

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Editor in Chief of APS

Year	Recipient
2006	Gene Sprouse

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Einstein Professor

Year	Recipient
1966	C.N. Yang

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Emilio Segre Distinguished Scholar

Year	Recipient
2005	Dmitri Kharzeev

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Eminent Scientist, RIKEN, Japan

Year	Recipient
1995	Konstantin Likharev

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Enrico Fermi Prize

Year	Recipient
2016	Barry Barish

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Ernst Bergmann Memorial Award

Year	Recipient
1999	Igor Aleiner

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Esther Hoffman Beller Medal

Year	Recipient
2023	Harold Metcalf

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Ettore Majorana Gold Medal

Year	Recipient
2016	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen

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Exceptional Service Award, DOE

Year	Recipient
1997	Paul Grannis

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FEL Prize

Year	Recipient
2004	Vladimir Litvinenko

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Fellow of the (British) Institute of Physics

Year	Recipient
2003	Peter Paul

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Fermi (Enrico) Fellowship

Year	Recipient
1971	Robert McCarthy

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Finke (Bernard H.) Award for Distinguished Teaching

Year	Recipient
1962	Arnold Strassenburg

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Finnish Society of Science & Letters (honorary member)

Year	Recipient
1984	Gerald Brown

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Franklin (Benjamin) Medal

Year	Recipient
1993	C.N. Yang

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Free Electron Laser Prize

Year	Recipient
2007	Ilan Ben-Zvi

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Fujitsu Quantum Device Award

Year	Recipient
2000	Emilio Mendez

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Fullam (Ernest F.) Award from Dudley Observatory

Year	Recipient
1988	Frederick Walter
1987	Michal Simon
1985	James Lattimer

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General Electric Junior Faculty Fellow

Year	Recipient
1992	Meigan Aronson

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Goddard Space Flight Center Certificate of Recognition

Year	Recipient
1991	Frederick Walter

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Godfrey Excellence in Teaching Award

Year	Recipient
2023	Jesus Perez Rios
2022	Jin Koda
2019	Michael Zingale

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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fundamental Physics Innovation Convener Award

Year	Recipient
2021	Ross Corliss

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Guggenheim (J.S.) Fellowship

Year	Recipient
2013	Leonardo Rastelli
2002	Philip Allen
2000	Paul Grannis
1999	James Lattimer
1998	Luis Orozco
1997	Alexander Zamolodchikov
1996	Jainendra Jain
1991	Martin Rocek
1985	Janos Kirz
1985	George Sterman
1984	Amos Yahil
1974	William Weisberger
1962	C.N. Yang

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Henry Draper Medal

Year	Recipient
2017	Barry Barish

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Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics

Year	Recipient
2017	Edward Shuryak

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Herschel Award (Harvard)

Year	Recipient
1971	Robert Shrock

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Hispanic Heritage Award (Stony Brook)

Year	Recipient
1998	Emilio Mendez

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Honorary Degree from Chiao Tun University, Taiwan

Year	Recipient
1997	C.N. Yang

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Honorary Degree from Ohio State University

Year	Recipient
2005	Gerald Brown

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Honorary Degree from Princeton University

Year	Recipient
1958	C.N. Yang

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Honorary Degree from SUNY, SB

Year	Recipient
1999	C.N. Yang

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Honorary Degree from Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Year	Recipient
1997	C.N. Yang

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Honorary Degree from Washington College

Year	Recipient
1999	C.N. Yang

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Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Ohio University

Year	Recipient
2009	Paul Grannis

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Honorary Professor of the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, Austria

Year	Recipient
2005	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen

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Honorary Science Degree, Chinese Univ of Hong Kong

Year	Recipient
1997	C.N. Yang

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Honorary Science Degree, Univ of Michigan

Year	Recipient
1998	C.N. Yang

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Hubble 25th Anniversary Commendation

Year	Recipient
2015	Frederick Walter

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Hubble Fellow from Space Telescope Science Institute

Year	Recipient
1990	Kenneth Lanzetta

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Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Science Fellow

Year	Recipient
1979	Thomas Kuo

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Humboldt (Alexander von) Senior US Scientist Award

Year	Recipient
2022	Leonardo Rastelli
2013	Dmitri Karzeev
2006	Jacobus Verbaarschot
2005	Edward Shuryak
2004	Alexander Zamolodchikov
2000	Alvarez-Gaume. Lois
1997	Harold Metcalf
1996	John Smith
1996	Philip Solomon
1989	David Fossan
1989	Peter Koch
1988	Philip Solomon
1987	Gerald Brown
1987	Gene Sprouse
1984	Philip Allen
1983	Peter Paul
1974	Robert McGrath

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Hungarian National Academy Member

Year	Recipient
2010	Laszlo Mihaly
1995	Nandor Balazs

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ICPT Dirac Medal

Year	Recipient
2011	Alexander Zamolodchikov

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IEEE Council on Superconductivity Award

Year	Recipient
2004	Konstantin Likharev

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IEEE Educational Activities Board Pre-University Educator Award

Year	Recipient
2009	Robert Spira

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IEEE Fellow

Year	Recipient
2008	Ilan Ben-Zvi
2008	Konstantin Likharev

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IEEE/NPSS Accelerator Science and Technology Award

Year	Recipient
1999	Ilan Ben-Zvi

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International Dennis Gabor Award

Year	Recipient
1996	Chris Jacobsen

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International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Ewald Prize

Year	Recipient
2008	David Sayre

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J. J. Sakurai Prize

Year	Recipient
2002	George Sterman

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James H. Simons Fellowship

Year	Recipient
2002	Alexandre Abanov
2001	Jacobus Verbaarschot

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Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship

Year	Recipient
2000	Jin Koda
1998	Chang Kee Jung

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John S. Toll Endowed Award for Teaching Excellence

Year	Recipient
2022	Jin Koda

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Judge Francis Bergan Career Development Grant from Dudley Observatory

Year	Recipient
1995	Kenneth Lanzetta

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Junior Fellow, Harward Society of Fellows

Year	Recipient
1981	Lois Alvarez-Gaume

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KEK Visiting Professor Fellowship

Year	Recipient
1998	Chang Kee Jung

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King Faisal International Prize for Science

Year	Recipient
2001	C.N. Yang

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Klopsteg Memorial Award

Year	Recipient
2002	Barry Barish

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Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion

Year	Recipient
2004	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen

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Knight of Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Year	Recipient
1979	Nandor Balazs

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Kramer Professor, University of Utrecht

Year	Recipient
1993	John Smith

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Lars Onsager Prize (APS)

Year	Recipient
2011	Alexander Zamolodchikov

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Lenin Komsomol Prize

Year	Recipient
1982	Alexander Zamolodchikov

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Long Island Hall of Fame

Year	Recipient
2002	Peter Paul

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Man of the Year in Community, Three Village Times

Year	Recipient
2002	Robert De Zafra

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Man of the Year in Science, Three Village Times

Year	Recipient
2002	Deane Peterson
1999	C.N. Yang
1997	Paul Grannis

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Max Plank Medal of the German Physical Society

Year	Recipient
1996	Gerald Brown

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McMillian Award

Year	Recipient
2000	Igor Aleiner

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Merit Award for Teaching and Curriculum Development

Year	Recipient
1989	Erland Graf

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Merit Award of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society

Year	Recipient
2008	Ilan Ben-Zvi

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Michelson Postdoctoral Fellowship (as mentor)

Year	Recipient
2004	Anand Sivaramakrishnan

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Microbeam Analysis Society's Outstanding Young Scientist Award

Year	Recipient
2001	Chris Jacobsen

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Moscow State University Honorary Ph.D.

Year	Recipient
2002	Peter Paul

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NASA Fellowship

Year	Recipient
2002	Aaron Evans

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NASA Spitzer Fellowship

Year	Recipient
2005	Stanimir Metchev

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NASA-Goddard Certificate of Achievement

Year	Recipient
1992	Frederick Walter

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National Academy of Inventors

Year	Recipient
2025	Eden Figueroa Barragan

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National Academy of Science

Year	Recipient
2008	Kenneth Dill
2008	Barbara Jacak
2002	Barry Barish
1978	Gerald Brown
1965	C.N. Yang

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National Medal of Science

Year	Recipient
2023	Barry Barish
1986	C.N. Yang

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National Sigma Xi Lecturer

Year	Recipient
1979	Peter Kahn

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NATO Senior Scientist Award

Year	Recipient
1996	Philip Solomon

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Neuron Award for Contribution to Science

Year	Recipient
2017	Martin Rocek

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New Horizon Prize in Physics

Year	Recipient
2020	Rouven Essig

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Nobel Prize

Year	Recipient
2017	Barry Barish
1957	C.N. Yang

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Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (membership)

Year	Recipient
1989	Gerald Brown

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NRC Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Goddard Institute

Year	Recipient
1970	Robert De Zafra

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NSF Antartic Service Medal

Year	Recipient
1987	Robert De Zafra

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NSF Career Award

Year	Recipient
2025	Jesus Perez Rios
2022	Cyrus Dryer
2022	Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi
2020	Jennifer Cano
2019	Sergey Syritsyn
2012	Dmitri Tsybychev
2011	Patrick Meade
2010	Matthew Dawber
2008	Rouven Essig
2008	Christopher Herzog

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NSF Career Grant

Year	Recipient
2004	Alexandre Abanov

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NSF Center for Adaptive Optics "top ten paper author"

Year	Recipient
2005	Anand Sivaramakrishnan

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NSF Center for Adaptive Optics Senior Member

Year	Recipient
2001	Anand Sivaramakrishnan

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NSF Predoctoral Fellowship

Year	Recipient
1971	Robert Shrock

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Oersted Medal AAPT

Year	Recipient
1987	Cliff Swartz

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Onsager (Lars) Prize

Year	Recipient
1999	C.N. Yang

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Optical Society of America Fellow

Year	Recipient
2002	Louis Dimauro
2000	Chris Jacobsen
2000	Harold Metcalf

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Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, Dept. of Army

Year	Recipient
1983	Cliff Swartz

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Outstanding Faculty Award

Year	Recipient
2023	Radu Ionas
2020	Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi
2019	Douglas Swesty
2018	Tom Hemmick
2017	Eden Figueroa Barragan
2016	Martin Rocek
2015	Thomas Weinacht
2013	Derek Teaney
2012	Alan Calder
2011	Xu Du
2010	Chang Kee Jung
2009	John Hobbs
2008	Alfred Goldhaber
2008	Thomas Kuo
2007	Dominik Schneble
2006	Alexandre Abanov
2005	Tom Hemmick
2004	Emilio Mendez
2003	Chris Jacobsen
2002	Emilio Mendez
2001	Peter Kahn
2000	John Hobbs
1999	Gene Sprouse
1998	Konstantin Likharev
1997	Michael Rijssenbeek
1996	Chris Jacobsen
1995	Andrew Jackson
1994	Luis Orozco
1993	Volker Koch
1992	Luis Orozco
1992	Ismail Zahed
1991	Herbert Muether
1990	Richard Mould
1989	Yihan Kao
1988	Janos Kirz
1987	Max Dresden
1986	Peter Stephens
1985	Philip Allen
1984	Gene Sprouse
1982	Yihan Kao
1981	Max Dresden
1980	Janos Kirz
1979	Leonard Eisenbud
1978	Gene Sprouse
1977	Herbert Muether
1976	Daniel Strottman
1975	Peter Kahn
1974	Harold Metcalf
1973	Leonard Eisenbud
1972	Janos Kirz

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Outstanding Faculty Service Award on Senate Library Services and Resources Committee

Year	Recipient
2017	Robert Shrock

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Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (DOE)

Year	Recipient
2006	Leonardo Rastelli
2006	Derek Teaney
2006	Michael Zingale
2004	Norbert Pietralla
2001	Thomas Schaefer
1999	John Hobbs
1994	Chang Kee Jung
1980	Michael Marx

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Outstanding Referees Award (APS)

Year	Recipient
2008	Philip Allen
2008	Thomas Bergeman
2008	Alfred Goldhaber
2008	Barry McCoy
2008	Harold Metcalf
2008	Edward Shuryak

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Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (IBM)

Year	Recipient
1989	Emilio Mendez

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Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge

Year	Recipient
1996	Philip Solomon

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Packard Fellowship

Year	Recipient
1998	Igor Aleiner

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Panofsky (W.K.H.) Prize

Year	Recipient
2001	Paul Grannis

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PECASE Presidential Early Career Award

Year	Recipient
2019	Joanna Kiryluk

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Pomeranchuk Prize

Year	Recipient
2014	Alexander Zamolodchikov

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Pontifical Academy of Sciences (membership)

Year	Recipient
1997	C.N. Yang

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Pregel Award (Boris), NY Academy of Sciences

Year	Recipient
1976	Gerald Brown

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President's and Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching

Year	Recipient
2003	Laszlo Mihaly
2001	Thomas Kuo
1999	Gene Sprouse
1996	Tom Hemmick
1978	Herbert Muether
1976	Janos Kirz
1974	Harold Metcalf

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President's Award for Research & Scholarly Activities

Year	Recipient
2005	John Smith

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President's Distinguished Endowed Chair

Year	Recipient
2023	Barry Barish

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Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (DOE)

Year	Recipient
2005	Michael Zingale

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Presidential Faculty Fellow (from George Bush)

Year	Recipient
1992	Chris Jacobsen

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Presidential Innovation Endowed Chair

Year	Recipient
2023	Eden Figueroa Barragan

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Presidential Young Investigator

Year	Recipient
1989	Vladimir Goldman

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Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics

Year	Recipient
2015	Rouven Essig

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Principe de Asturias Prize for Science and Technology (Spain)

Year	Recipient
2017	Barry Barish
1998	Emilio Mendez

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Prix La Recherche (shared with T2K collaboration)

Year	Recipient
2012	Chang Kee Jung

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Prize Javed Husain for Young Scientists

Year	Recipient
1989	Lois Alvarez-Gaume

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Proctor Award (Princeton)

Year	Recipient
1973	Robert Shrock

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Project Professor, Kavli Institute, University of Tokyo

Year	Recipient
2013	Chang-Kee Jung

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Provost's Outstanding Mentors Award

Year	Recipient
2022	Thomas Weinacht

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Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics

Year	Recipient
2018	Zohar Komargodski

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Renaissance Endowed Chair in Theoretical Physics

Year	Recipient
2023	Leonardo Rastelli

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Royal Danish Academy Fellow

Year	Recipient
1964	Gerald Brown

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Royal Dutch Academy of Science Corresponding Member

Year	Recipient
1994	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen

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Royal Society (London) Membership

Year	Recipient
1992	C.N. Yang

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Rumford Prize

Year	Recipient
1980	C.N. Yang

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Russian Academy of Sciences (foreign member)

Year	Recipient
2016	Paul Grannis

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Russian Metrological Academy (honorary member)

Year	Recipient
1997	Konstantin Likharev

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Sackler Fellow

Year	Recipient
2005	Dmitri Kharzeev

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Senior Weizmann Fellow

Year	Recipient
1967	Peter Kahn

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Silver Medal, University of Helsinki

Year	Recipient
1966	Gerald Brown

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Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship

Year	Recipient
2022	Jennifer Cano
2015	Lukasz Fidkowski
2013	Rouven Essig
2010	Christopher Herzog
2008	Derek Teaney
2001	Alexandre Abanov
2001	Zurab Kakushadze
1998	Igor Aleiner
1991	Jainendra Jain
1989	Vladimir Goldman
1985	Lois Alvarez-Gaume
1982	James Lattimer
1978	Peter Koch
1973	Philip Allen
1973	Barry McCoy
1972	Gene Sprouse
1970	Janos Kirz
1969	Paul Grannis
1967	Peter Paul
1967	William Weisberger

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Spanish Ministry of Science and Education Visiting Professor

Year	Recipient
2005	Chang Kee Jung

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Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (shared with S. Ferrara/CERN and D. Freedman/MIT)

Year	Recipient
2019	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen

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Spokesperson of PHENIX, BNL

Year	Recipient
2006	Barbara Jacak

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Stony Brook Trustees Faculty Award

Year	Recipient
2025	Vivian Miranda

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Student Life Award, SUNY SB

Year	Recipient
1998	Alfred Goldhaber

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SUNY Recognition Research in Science and Medicine

Year	Recipient
2001	Barbara Jacak

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SUWA Prize (Shared, with J-PARC Neutrino Beam Group)

Year	Recipient
2013	Chang Kee Jung

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Teyler Professor of Physics at Leiden University 1985 - 1995

Year	Recipient
1995	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen

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Tomassoni Chisesi Prize

Year	Recipient
2022	Zohar Komargodski

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US Atlas Fellowship

Year	Recipient
2011	Dmitri Tsybychev

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USSR Minister of Higher Education Award

Year	Recipient
1980	Konstantin Likharev

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Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Year	Recipient
2008	Peter Paul

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Villum Kann Rasmussen Visiting Professor

Year	Recipient
2005	Jacobus Verbaarschot

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Visiting Miller Professor, Univ of California Berkeley

Year	Recipient
2001	Barry McCoy

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Visiting Schrodinger-Professor 1997

Year	Recipient
1997	Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen

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Visiting Scientist Award United Kingdom Particle Phy/Ast Research Council

Year	Recipient
1996	Philip Solomon

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Visiting Scientist, Particle Physics& Astronomy Council, UK

Year	Recipient
2001	Paul Grannis

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Wetherill (John Price) Medal of the Franklin Institute

Year	Recipient
1992	Gerald Brown

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Wilbur Lucius Cross medal of the Yale Graduate School Alumni Assoc.

Year	Recipient
2003	Gerry Brown

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Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

Year	Recipient
1971	Robert Shrock

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