Award Public Welfare Medal

American Physical Society (Fellow, 1989)

American Philosophical Society (1995)

International Space Hall of Fame (2004)

Pulitzer Prize (1978)

John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award (1982)

Joseph Priestley Award (1976)

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Medal (Awarded by the Soviet Cosmonauts Federation, 1987)

Harold Masursky Award for Meritorious Service to Planetary Science (1991)

Explorers Club, Lowell Thomas Award (1980)

Oersted Medal (1990, American Association of Physics Teachers)

NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1977)

Emmy (Outstanding Individual Achievement, 1981)

Emmy (Outstanding Informational Series, 1981)

Humanist of the Year (1981)

Isaac Asimov Award (1994)

Peabody Award (1980)

Klumpke-Roberts Award (1974)

Golden Plate Award (1975)

Order of Saint James of the Sword (Grand-Cross, 1998)

Pantheon of Skeptics (2011)

NASA Apollo Achievement Award (1970)

Prix Galabert (1973)

Peter Lavan Award (1984)

New Priorities Award (1984)

Sidney Hillman Foundation Prize Award (1984)

SANE National Peace Award (1984)

Olive Branch Award (1984, 1986, 1989)

Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest (1985)

Nahum Goldmann Medal (1986)

Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964)

S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen (1973)

Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964)

Laetare Medal (1987)

Guinness World Record holder for most honorary degrees

Congressional Gold Medal (1999)

NCAA Gerald R. Ford Award (2004)

F. Sadlier Dinger Award (1982)

Sylvanus Thayer Award (1980)

First priest to become a U.S. ambassador

Honorary member of the Austrian Catholic fraternity KÖHV Alpenland

Jefferson Award (Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged)

Honorary Navy chaplain

Honorary Doctorate (University of Bucharest, 1996)

Honorary Doctorate (University of Melbourne, 1996)

Honorary Doctorate (Indian Agricultural Research Institute, 1997)

Honorary Doctorate (American University, 1998)

Honorary Doctorate (Punjab Agricultural University, 1998)

Honorary Doctorate (Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, 1998)

Honorary Doctorate (Ohio State University, 1998)

Honorary Doctorate (Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, 1999)

Honorary Doctorate (Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, 1999)

Honorary Doctorate (Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, 1999)

Honorary Doctorate (Egerton University, 1999)

Honorary Doctorate (University of Tuscia, 1999)

Honorary Doctorate (American University in Cairo, 2000)

Honorary Doctorate (Southern New Hampshire University, 2002)

Honorary Doctorate (McGill University, 2003)

Honorary Doctorate (University of Technology, Sydney, 2004)

Honorary Doctorate (Paul Sabatier University, 2004)

Honorary Doctorate (University of Minnesota, 2005)

Honorary Doctorate (University of Nantes, 2006)

Honorary Doctorate (Azerbaijan State Economic University, 2007)

Honorary Doctorate (Khazar University, 2007)

Honorary Doctorate (Laval University, 2008)

Honorary Doctorate (Beirut Arab University, 2009)

Honorary Doctorate (Azerbaijan Cooperation University, 2009)

Honorary Doctorate (National Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, Azerbaijan, 2009)

Honorary Doctorate (University of Dublin, 2009)

Honorary Doctorate (ANAS Institute of Oriental Studies, 2010)

Honorary Doctorate (Georgian American University, 2010)

Honorary Doctorate (Free University of Tbilisi, 2010)

Honorary Doctorate (University of Georgia in Tbilisi, 2012)

Honorary Doctorate (Ilia State University, 2012)

Honorary Doctorate (State Agricultural University in Ganja, Azerbaijan, 2012)

Honorary Doctorate (Oglar Turdu State University, 2012)

Order of Manitoba (2005)

Jack P. Blaney Award for Dialogue (Simon Fraser University, 2002)

Candlelight Award (Carriage House Center on Global Issues, 2002)

Order of Canada (Companion, 1999)

Order of the Southern Cross (Government of Brazil, 1998)

Swedish Royal Order of the Polar Star (1996)

IKEA Environmental Award (1995)

Asahi Glass Foundation Award (Blue Planet Prize, 1994)

Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding (1994)

International St. Francis Prize for the Environment (1993)

Alexander Onassis Delphi Prize (1993)

Pearson Medal of Peace (1989)

Charles A. Lindbergh Award (1981)

Order of Canada (Officer, 1976)

National Audubon Society Award (1975)

Tyler Environmental Prize (1974)

National Medal of Science (Physical Sciences ∙ 1987)

National Science Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award

American Medical Association Scientific Achievement Award

Waldo E. Smith Medal

Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science (1971)