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Faculty & Postdoc Awards
In addition to Nobel Prizes awarded to our faculty and alumni, our researchers have received numerous prestigious national and international awards and honors. Discover more, by year below.
- Shrinvas Kulkarni - 2026 Gold Medal Royal Astronomical Society
- Jonas Zmuidzinas - 2026 James Craig Watson Medal
- Linda Ye - Department of Energy Early Career Award
- Jamie Bock (SPHEREx) - 2026 Sylvia A. Earle Award for Exploration Excellence
- Elias Most - 2026 Sloan Fellowship
- Huy Tuan Pham - 2026 Sloan Fellowship
- Lingfu Zhang - 2026 Sloan Fellowship
- Clifford Cheung, Sergei Gukov, Alexei Kitaev - 2026 Frontiers of Science Award
- The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration - 2026 Frontiers of Science Award
- Arian Jadbabaie - Springer Thesis Award
- Sergei Gukov - Frontiers in Science Award (Algebraic and Geometric Topology)
- David Conlon- Frontiers in Science Award (Discrete Geometry and Graph Theory)
- Tom Hou- Frontiers in Science Award (Scientific Computing)
- Xinwen Zhu- Frontiers in Science Award (Lie Theory and Representation theory)
- Vesselin Dmitrov - Frontiers in Science Award (Algebraic Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry)
- Anton Kapustin - Frontiers in Science Award (Formal Quantum Field Theory)
- John Preskill - Frontiers in Science Award (Condensed Matter Physics)
- Katherine Bouman - Presidential Early Career Award
- Katerina Chatziioannou - Presidential Early Career Award
- Nicholas Hutzler - Presidential Early Career Award
- Philip Hopkins - 2025 AAS Fellow
- Kareem El-Badry - Sloan Fellow
- Kareem El-Badry - RCSA Scialog: Early Science with the LSST
- Jim Eisenstein - 2025 Wolf Prize
- Kathryn Plant - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Dissertation Award in Astrophysics
- Robert Huang - PhD Thesis Award from APS Division of Quantum Information
- John Preskill - 2025 Academic Pioneer in Quantum
- Bertrand Echenard - 2025 APS Fellowship (Division of Particles and Fields Fellowship)
- Vesselin Dimitrov - 2025 Salem Prize (Diophantine Geometry and Number Theory)
- Kareem El-Badry - 2025 MacArthur Fellowship
- John Preskill - 2024 Bell Prize
- Vikram Ravi - 2024 Sloan Fellowship
- Lee McCuller - 2024 Sloan Fellowship
- Antoine Song - 2024 Sloan Fellowship
- Joseph Giaime - 2023 AAAS Fellow
- Lynne Hillenbrand - 2023 AAAS Fellow
- Anneila Sargent - 2023 AAAS Fellow
- Keefe Mitman - Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Scott Schwartz - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Michael Bregar - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Shri Kulkarni - Shaw Prize
- H. Jeff Kimble - Leonard Mandel Quantum Optics Award
- Alexei Kitaev - Henri Poincaré Prize
- Linda Ye - Synthesis Fellow Award
- Tom Hutchcroft - winner of the EMS Prize
- Phil Hopkins - 2024 American Physical Society Fellow
- Barry Barish - Copernicus Prize Winner
- Phil Hopkins - 2023 HEAD Mid-Career Prize
- Yapeng Zhang - 2023 51 Pegasi b Fellow
- Huazhi Ge - 2023 51 Pegasi b Fellow
- Hirosi Oguri - 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
- Richard Ellis - 2023 Gruber Cosmology Prize Winner
- Tom Hutchcroft - 2022 Young Researcher Award
- Edward Stone - the Edward C. Stone Professorship named in his honor
- David Simmons-Duffin - Frontiers of Science Award
- Cliff Cheung - Frontiers of Science Award
- Philip Isett - Frontiers of Science Award
- Philip Hopkins - named Simons Investigator
- Christina Cohen - AGU Fellow Award
- Michael Roukes - National Institute of Health's Directors Transformative Research Award
- Barry Barish - National Medal of Science
- Edward Stone - Franklin Institute Award of the Benjamin Franklin Medal for leading NASA's Voyager program
- Keita Kawabe - elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Manuel Endres - received 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize
- David Simmons-Duffin - received 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize
- Nicholas Scoville - elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- Katerina Chatziioannou - named 2022 Sloan Research Fellow
- Katerina Chatziioannou - received 2022 IUPAP General Relativity and Gravitation Young Scientist Prize
- David Hsieh - 2021 inaugural Brown Investigator Award
- Xie Chen - Named a 2021 Simons Investigator in theoretical physics
- Manuel Endres - Received an Early Career Research Award from the DOE
- Nick Hutzler - Awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for 2021
- Alexei Kitaev - Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- Hirosi Oguri - Received the 2021 Benjamin Lee Professorship Award
- Anneila Sargent - Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- Nick Scoville - Awarded the 2021 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
- Saul Teukolsky - Received the American Physical Society's Einstein Prize
- Saul Teukolsky - Received Dirac Medal
- Mansi Kasliwal - Awarded 2022 New Horizons Prize in Physics
- Gregg Hallinan - Awarded 2022 New Horizons Prize in Physics
- Kathryn Zurek - named a 2020 Simons Investigator in Theoretical Physics by the Simons Foundation
- Fiona Harrison - elected to the inaugural class (May 2020) of Fellows of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)
- Nikolai Makarov - awarded the 2020 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics
- Anneila Sargent - elected to the inaugural class (May 2020) of Fellows of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)
- Xinwen Zhu - named a 2020 Simons Investigator in Mathematics
- Hirosi Ooguri - Awarded Japan's Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon
- Fiona Harrison - Awarded the American Physical Society's 2020 Hans A. Bethe Prize
- Fernando Brandao - Awarded the American Physical Society's 2020 Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing
- Xinwen Zhu - Won a 2020 New Horizons in Mathmatics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize
- Xie Chen - Won a 2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize
- Philip Isett - awarded the 2019 Clay Research Award
- Samantha Westcott - received the designation of NCURA Distinguished Educator
- Robbie Vogt - the Rochus E. Vogt Fellowship named in his honor
- David Conlon - awarded the 2019 Whitehead Prize
- Nick Hutzler - awarded a 2019 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award
- Xinwen Zhu - awarded the 2019 ICCM Gold Medal of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
- Anneila Sargent - awarded the 2019 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship
- Gil Refael - named a 2019 Simons Investigator in physics
- Nets Katz - named a 2019 Simons Investigator in mathematics
- Ed Stone - Shaw Prize in Astronomy
- Sofie Leon - Dr. Fred Shair Award for Programming
- Dianne Newman - elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
- Barry Simon - elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
- Barry Barish - elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society
- Maksym Radziwill - Banach prize of the Polish Mathematical Society
- Harvey Newman and Shashwitha Puttaswamy - the 2019 Innovations in Networking Award for Experimental Applications
- Anneila Sargent - the 2019 Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award
- Philip Isett - Sloan Research Fellowship
- Jamie Bock and the SPHEREx team for being selected for flight as NASA's next MIDEX Explorer Mission
- Jacklyn Pezzato and Anna Ho - PMA's 2019 Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) Affiliates.
- T.J. Massinger - 2018 LIGO Laboratory Award for Excellence in Detector Characterization and Calibration
- David Reitze - named a AAAS Fellow
- Manuel Endres - Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award
- Stan Whitcomb - received the APS Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science
- Daniel Sigg - elected as a Fellow Member of The Optical Society (OSA)
- Maksym Radziwill - honored with 2019 New Horizons Prize
- Mansi Kasliwal - awarded a 2018 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
- Rana Adhikari - selection to the APS Fellowship, honored with 2019 New Horizons Prize
- Hirosi Ooguri- selected to receive the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics
- LIGO observatories - designated historic sites by the American Physical Society.
- Dennis Coyne - Recipient of the Berkeley Prize
- Jim Fuller - Recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship
- Evan Kirby - Appointed as Cottrell Scholar
- Eric Rains - Appointed as AMS Fellow
- David Simmons-Duffin - Recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship, Hermann Weyl Prize
- Barry Simon - Recipient of Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
- Yanbei Chen - selected as Simons Investigator
- Barry Barish - Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics; Recipient of the National Academy of Sciences - Henry Draper Medal; Awarded the Princess of Asturias Award; Recipient of the Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize; Awarded the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award
- Charles Beichman - Recipient of the Canadian Astronomical Society - Petrie Prize
- Xie Chen - Recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship
- Judith Cohen - Appointed as a member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Manuel Endres - Recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship
- Eric Gustafson - Appointed as an APS Fellow in the Division of Gravitational Physics
- Evan Kirby - Recipient of the ASCIT Teaching Award
- Shri Kulkarni - Named George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy; Recipient of the Dan David Prize in the category Future - Astronomy
- Harvey Newman- Named Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics
- Hirosi Ooguri - Elected to the Japan Writers' Association
- Frank Porter - Appointed as an APS Fellow in the Division of Particles and Fields
- Gil Refael- Named Taylor W. Lawrence chair of physics
- David Reitze - Recipient of the National Academy of Sciences - Scientific Discovery Award
- Anneila Sargent - Appointed as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Scotland's National Academy of Science and Letters
- Nick Scoville - Recipient of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Catherine Wolfe Bruce Medal
- Maria Spiropulu - Named Ch'en Professor of Physics
- Kip Thorne - Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics; Awarded the Princess of Asturias Award; Recipient of the Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize; Awarded the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award
- Rochus "Robbie" Vogt - Recipient of the University of Chicago Alumni Medal
- Stan Whitcomb - Recipient of the National Academy of Sciences - Henry Draper Medal
- Barry Barish - Recipient of the 2016 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society for his "fundamental role in the first direct detection of gravitational waves and the discovery of binary black hole mergers"
- Jamie Bock - Recipient of the 2016 American Astronomical Society Joseph Weber Award
- Ronald Drever - Recipient of the 2016 Shaw Prize in Astronomy for conceiving and designing LIGO; Honored for his role in the foundation of LIGO, recipient of the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics recognizing the LIGO scientists and engineers who contributed to the detection of gravitational waves.
- Fiona Harrison - Recipient of the 2016 Massey Award from the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
- Philip Hopkins - Recipient of the 2016 American Astronomical Society Helen B. Warner Prize
- Shri Kulkarni - Appointed as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Science
- Hirosi Ooguri - Elected as President of the Aspen Center for Physics; Elected as a fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences; Recipient of the 2016 Chunichi Cultural Prize
- Barry Simon - Awarded the 2016 Leroy Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society
- Maria Spiropulu - Selected to serve on the U.S. Department of Energy and the NSF High Energy Physics Advisory Panel
- Kip Thorne - Recipient of the 2016 Shaw Prize in Astronomy for conceiving and designing LIGO; Honored for his role in the foundation of LIGO, recipient of the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics recognizing the LIGO scientists and engineers who contributed to the detection of gravitational waves.
- Rochus E. Vogt - Honored for his "important contributions" that lead to the success of LIGO, recipient of the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics recognizing the LIGO scientists and engineers who contributed to the detection of gravitational waves.
- Sean Carroll - Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- Richard Ellis - 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics – member of the Supernova Cosmology Project Team; Awarded a Carnegie Centennial Professorship at the University of Edinburgh; Invited to give one of the Darwin Lectures at Cambridge
- Gregg Hallinan - Recipient of a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship
- Fiona Harrison - Awarded the 2015 Rossi Prize by the American Astronomical Society (AAS); Awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Astronomical Society
- David Hitlin - Awarded the 2016 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics from the American Physical Society
- David Hsieh - Awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering; Recipient of 2014-2015 Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology (ASCIT) Teaching Award
- Nets Katz - Recipient of the 2015 Clay Research Award with his collaborator, Larry Guth
- Alexei Kitaev - Awarded the ICTP (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics) 2015 Dirac Medal and Prize; Named a 2015 Simons Investigator in Physics
- Shri Kulkarni - Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Nick Scoville - Awarded the 2015 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship
- Barry Simon - Awarded the International János Bolyai Prize of Mathematics for 2015
- Maria Spiropulu - Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Particle & Fields
- Kip Thorne - Recipient of a 2015 Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award
- Xinwen Zhu - Recipient of a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship
- Jamie Bock - Recipient of the 2014 SPIE George W. Goddard Award; Awarded NASA Distinguished Service Medal
- Sean Carroll - Awarded the 2014 Andrew Geman Award from the American Institute of Physics
- Clifford Cheung - 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics
- George Djorgovski - Invited to give the Walker L. Cisler Memorial Lecture at Lawrence Technological University; Elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow
- Steve Frautschi - Awarded the Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2013-2014
- Fiona Harrison - Elected Member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Invited to give the 2014 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lecture at Harvard University
- Philip Hopkins - 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics
- David Hsieh - 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics
- Jeff Kimble - MPQ Distinguished Scholar at the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
- Shri Kulkarni - Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship
- Vlad Markovic - Elected, Fellow of the Royal Society
- Chris Martin - Awarded NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
- Hirosi Ooguri - Awarded the 30th Kodansha Prize for Science Books
- Tom Phillips - Awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the l'Observatoire de Paris
- John Preskill - Member, National Academy of Sciences
- Tony Readhead - Invited to give the 2014 Hewish Lecture at Cambridge University
- Michael Roukes - Invited to give the Niels Bohr Lecture at the University of Copenhagen
- John Schwarz - 2014 recipient of the Physics Frontiers Prize of the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation; Co-recipient of the 2014 Fundamental Physics Prize; Invited to give the Della Pietra Lectures at the Simons Center for Geometry & Physics at Stony Brook University
- Barry Simon - Invited to give the 2015 Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture at the Niels Bohr International Academy
- Ed Stone - Leonardo Da Vinci Sapere Vedere Award for 2014 by the Engineers' Council; American Astronautical Society's Lifetime Achievement Award
- Jonas Zmuidzinas - Invited to be the E. W. Guptill Lecturer for 2013-14 at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Sean Carroll - 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
- Clifford Cheung - DOE Early Career Research Award
- Fiona Harrison - Named the Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics & Astronomy; NASA Outstanding Public Leadership Medal
- Alexei Kitaev - Named the Ronald & Maxine Linde Professor of Theoretical Physics & Mathematics
- Nikolai Makarov - Named the Richard Merkin Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
- Matilde Marcolli - Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute
- Vladimir Markovic - John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics
- Ryan Patterson - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
- Anthony Readhead - Named the Robinson Professor of Astronomy
- Michael Roukes - Awarded the Palmes Académiques Medal (Order of the Academic Palms); Awarded rank of Chevalier (Knight) in the Ordre de Palmes Académiques
- Anneila Sargent - Named the Ira S. Bowen Professor of Astronomy
- Barry Simon - Doctor Honoris Causa, Ludwing-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
- Ed Stone - Awarded the 2013 O'Ceallaigh Medal; awarded 2013 Howard Hughes Memorial Award by the Aero Club of Southern California
- Tom Apostol - Named Member of the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the AMS
- Michael Aschbacher - Co-Recipient of the 2012 Wolf Prize in Mathematics; 2012 Leroy P. Steel Prize for Mathematical Exposition, American Mathematics Society; Named Member of the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the AMS
- David Hsieh - 2012 William L. McMillan Award
- Anton Kapustin - Named the Earle C. Anthony Professor of Theoretical Physics & Mathematics
- Alexander Kechris - Named Member of the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the AMS
- Jeff Kimble - Herbert Walther Award
- Alexei Kitaev - One of the 9 recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize
- Shri Kulkarni - Awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Science
- Wilhelmus Luxemburg - Named Member of the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the AMS
- Vlad Markovic - 2012 Clay Research Award, co-recipient
- Yi Ni - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
- Hirosi Ooguri - Simons Investigator; named Member of the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the AMS
- Christian Ott - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
- Dinakar Ramakrishnan - Named Member of the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the AMS
- Barry Simon - Co-recipient of the 2012 Henri Poincare Prize; named Member of the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the AMS
- Kip Thorne - 2012 AAPT John David Jackson Excellence in Graduate Physics Education Award
- Michael Aschbacher - Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics
- Judy Cohen - 2011 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Distinguished Lecturer
- Richard Ellis - Gold Medal of the Royal Society
- Hirosi Ooguri - Chosen to deliver a special lecture at the Annual Assembly of RIKEN Laboratory, Japan
- Ryan Patterson - Professor of the Month by the Academic & Research Committee
- David Politzer - Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- John Preskill - Named the 2011 Aisenstadt Chair at the Center de Recherches Mathe'matiques in Montreal
- Ed Stone - 2011 Goddard Astronautics Award, American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics
- Tom Apostol - 2010 Lester Ford Award
- Sean Carroll - Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Richard Ellis - 2010 Oort Professor at University of Leiden
- Fiona Harrison - Honorary degree of "Doctor Technices Honoris Causa" Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
- Ken Libbrecht - 2010 Lennart Nilsson Award
- Gerry Neugebauer - 2010 C. W. Bruce Gold Medal
- Chuck Steidel - 2010 Cosmology Prize of the Peter & Patricia Gruber Foundation
- Kip Thorne - 2010 Scott Lecturer at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University; UNESCO Niels Bohr Gold Medal
- Brad Filippone - Named a fellow of the American Physical Society
- Anton Kapustin - Invited to address the International Congress of Mathematicians
- Ken Libbrecht - 2009 Emile Chamot Award, State Microscopical Society of Illinois
- Matilde Marcolli - Invited to address the International Congress of Mathematicians
- Harvey Newman - 2009 Internet2 IDEA Award for the EVO Application, shared with his team
- Hirosi Ooguri - Nishina Memorial Prize
- John Preskill - 2009 Welsh Lecturer, University of Toronto
- Eric Rains - Invited to address the International Congress of Mathematicians
- Tony Readhead - 2009 Jansky Lecturer
- Gil Refael - Awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
- Maria Spiropulu - Elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Kip Thorne - 2009 Einstein Medal; Lorentz Professor at University of Leiden
- Mark Wise - Distinguished Research Chair at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- George Djorgovski - 1st prize Boeing-Griffith Science Writing Contest
- Fiona Harrison - Selected by US News as one of America's top 24 Leaders for 2008
- Alexei Kitaev - Named a MacArthur Fellow
- Harvey Newman - CENIC 2008 Innovations in Networking Award in Experimental/ Developmental Applications for the Ultralight Project, co-recipient; Elected fellow of the American Physical Society
- Hirosi Ooguri - Inaugural Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics, the American Mathematical Society; Takagi Lecturer, the Mathematical Society of Japan; Humboldt Research Award
- Gil Refael - Named a Cottrell Scholar; Awarded a Packard Fellowship
- Maarten Schmidt - One of the first recipients of the Kavli Prize
- Felix Boehm - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Ron Drever - 2007 Einstein Prize of the American Physical Society
- Jim Eisenstein - 2007 Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter, the American Physical Society
- Richard Ellis - Inaugural John Bahcall Distinguished Professor at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore; 2007 Cosmology Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, member of team
- Peter Goldreich - Shaw Prize in Astronomy
- Jeff Kimble - Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa, University of Copenhagen
- Shri Kulkarni - Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University
- Harvey Newman - Doctor Honaris Causa, University Politehnica of Bucharest; Doctor Honaris Causa, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia
- Tom Prince – Elected fellow of the American Physical Society
- Dinakar Ramakrishnan - Named the 1st Taussky-Todd-Lonergan Professor of Mathematics
- Anneila Sargent - Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, University of Edinburgh
- John Schwarz - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Barry Simon - Wolfgang Wasow Memorial Lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Ed Stone - Philip J. Klass Award for Lifetime Achievement, Aviation Week
- Nai-Chang Yeh - Elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Barry Barish - Laurea ad Honorem in Physics by the Universite de Bologna
- Peter Goldreich - Grande Medaille from the Academie des Sciences of the Institut de France
- Sunil Golwala - DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
- Jeff Kimble - 2nd Hermann Antan Haus Lecture at MIT; Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis
- John Preskill - Morris Loeb Lecturer in Physics at Harvard University
- Anneila Sargent - Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Barry Simon - Fellowship from Wales Swansea; Milton Brockett Porter Lecturer at Rice University (2006-2007); van Winter Memorial Lecture in Mathematical Physics at University of Kentucky (2006-2007)
- Ahmed Zewail - "Albert Einstein" World Award of Science by the World Council
- Rana Adhikari - LIGO Thesis Prize
- Barry Barish - Heilborn Distinguished Lecturer at Northwestern University; Member of the American Academy of Arts & Science
- Jim Eisenstein - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Shri Kulkarni - Marker Lecturer at Pennsylvania State University; Biermann Lectureship
- Chris Martin - Second NASA Public Service Medal
- John Preskill - Rouse Ball Lecture; 2005 Lawrence C. Biedenharn Lecturer at the University of Texas, Austin
- Anneila Sargent - 2005 Oort Professor in Leiden
- Barry Simon - Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Kip Thorne - Named as one of 5 honorees for the 2005 Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service
- Ahmed Zewail - Grand Gold Medal from Komensky University in Slovakia; Honorary Degree from Tohoku University in Japan