Award Cosmos Award

Fellow, American Physical Society (2022)

Eduard Rhein Foundation Cultural Medal (2014)

Klumpke-Roberts Award (2008)

Harrison Medal (2004)

National Science Board's Public Service Medal (2001)

Bradford Washburn Award (2001)

Christopher Award (2000)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for science and technology (1999)

Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award (1999)

British Book of the Year (1997)

Guggenheim Fellowship (2007)