Faculty Honors and Awards

Our distinguished faculty are leaders in their disciplines and the recipients of numerous honors and awards.


Nobel Prize

  • Mather, John (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2006)
  • Phillips, William (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1997)

National Medal of Science

  • Colwell, Rita
  • Gates Jr., Sylvester James

National Academy Members

National Academy of Engineering (as of 6/7/24)

  • Kalnay, Eugenia
  • Shneiderman, Ben
  • Stewart, G.W. (Pete)

National Academy of Inventors (as of 6/7/24)

  • Colwell, Rita
  • Lin, Ming
  • Manocha, Dinesh
  • Shneiderman, Ben
  • Wang, Lai-Xi

National Academy of Medicine (as of 6/7/24)

  • Leshner, Alan

National Academy of Public Administration (as of 6/7/24)

  • Leshner, Alan
  • Uccellini, Louis

National Academy of Sciences (as of 6/7/24)

  • Buonanno, Alessandra
  • Carroll, Sean
  • Colwell, Rita
  • Farquhar, James
  • Fisk, Lennard
  • Gantt, Elisabeth
  • Gates Jr., Sylvester James
  • Gloeckler, George
  • Jarzynski, Christopher
  • Julienne, Paul
  • Lorimer, George
  • Mather, John
  • Monroe, Christopher
  • Ott, Edward
  • Phillips, William
  • Rudnick, Roberta
  • Sagdeev, Roald
  • Walker, Richard
  • Weeks, John
  • Williams, Ellen

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (as of 6/7/24)

  • Carroll, Sean
  • Colwell, Rita
  • Gates Jr., Sylvester James
  • Hill, Wendell
  • Jarzynski, Christopher
  • Kalnay, Eugenia
  • Kirwan, William
  • Leshner, Alan
  • Mather, John
  • Palmer, Margaret
  • Phillips, William
  • Rankin, Mary Ann
  • Rudnick, Roberta
  • Sagdeev, Roald
  • Walker, Richard
  • Weeks, John
  • Williams, Ellen

Foreign Academy Members

Academia Europa

  • Kalnay, Eugenia (Fellow)

Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Rudnick, Roberta (Foreign Member)

International Academy of Astronautics

  • Papadopoulos, Konstantinos (Corresponding Member)

International Academy of Refrigeration (Ukrainian Division)

  • Anisimov, Mikhail (Member)

International Academy of Refrigeration of Russia

  • Sengers, Jan (Academician Emeritus)

Mexican Academy of Sciences (la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias)

  • Phillips, William (Corresponding Member)

National Academy of Sciences, India (Fellows)

  • Mohapatra, Rabindra
  • Pati, Jogesh

Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Members)

  • Phillips, William
  • Sagdeev, Roald

Royal Academy of Sciences, Sweden

  • Olver, Frank (Foreign Member)

Royal Irish Academy

  • Colwell, Rita (Honorary Member)

Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences

  • Sengers, Jan (Corresponding Member)

Royal Society of Canada

  • Halperin, Steve (Fellow)

Royal Society of London

  • Lorimer, George (Fellow)

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

  • Colwell, Rita (Member)

Russian Academy of Sciences (Members)

  • Sagdeev, Roald