Award Harrison Medal

Fellow, American Physical Society (2022)

Cosmos Award (2025)

Eduard Rhein Foundation Cultural Medal (2014)

Klumpke-Roberts Award (2008)

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)