Award UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal

Phi Beta Kappa (Science Writing Award)

American Physical Society's Lilienfeld Prize

German Astronomical Society's Karl Schwarzschild Medal

Robinson Prize in Cosmology

Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society's Common Wealth Awards for Science and Invention

California Science Center's California Scientist of the Year Award (2003)

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

Danforth Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

Fulbright Fellowship

Nobel Prize (Physics, 2017)

Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2016)

Albert Einstein Medal (2009)

Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2016)