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- ISAAC ABELLA
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1969
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1984
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- EDWARD BLUCHER
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1994
- DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator, 1994
- NSF Young Investigator Award, 1994
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- JOHN CARLSTROM
- Packard Fellow, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, 1994
- NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, 1997
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, 1998
- James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship, 1999
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000
- S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor, 2001
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- CHENG CHIN
- Lise Meitner Fellowship, 2003 & 2004
- Visiting professor, 2003, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
- OCPA Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 2006
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 2006
- CAREER Grant, National Science Foundation, 2008
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- PHILIPPE CLUZEL
- Phillip Morris Prix pour la Science, 1996
- NSF Mathematics & Molecular Biology Fellowship, 1999
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- JUAN COLLAR
- Research Innovation Award 2002, Research Corporation
- CAREER Grant, National Science Foundation, 2002
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- ALBERT CREWE
- "Chicagoan of the Year in Science," Chicago Junior Chamber of Commerce, 1962
- Immigrants Service League's Annual Award for Outstanding
Achievement in the Field of Science, 1962
- Outstanding New Citizen, Citizenship Council of Chicago, 1962
- Honorary Degree, The University of Missouri, 1967
- Honorary Degree, Lake Forest College, 1968
- Honorary Degree, Elmhurst College, 1969
- Industrial Research "Man of the Year," 1970
- National Academy of Sciences, 1972
- Electron Microscopy Society of America's Distinguished Service Award, 1976
- Albert A. Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute, 1977
- William Wrather Distinguished Service Professor, 1978
- Ernst Abbe Award, N.Y. Microscope Society, 1979
- Duddell Medal, The Institute of Physics, London, 1980
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Honorary Member, Royal Microscopial Society, 1984
- Honorary Fellow, Electron Microscope Society of China, 1989
- Honorary Degree, University of Liverpool, 2001
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- JAMES CRONIN
- Research Corporation Award, 1968
- National Academy of Sciences, 1970
- University Professor of Physics, 1971
- John Price Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute, 1975
- Ernest O. Lawrence Award, Energy Research & Development Administration, 1977
- Nobel Prize for Physics, 1980
- Laureate, Lincoln Academy of Illinois (Medal of the Order of Lincoln), 1981
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1982
- Ryerson Lecturer, 1990
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1992
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1994
- Docteur honoris causa, l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 1994
- Honorary degree, University of Leeds, 1996
- Member, American Philosophical Society, 1999
- National Medal of Science, 1999
- Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2003
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- DEAN EASTMAN
- Oliver E. Buckley Prize, American Physical Society, 1980
- American Physical Society, 1981
- National Academy of Sciences, 1982
- National Academy of Engineering, 1988
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991
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- PETER FREUND
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Honorary degree, the West University of Timisoara, Rumania, 1996
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- HENRY FRISCH
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1986
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1992
- Divisional Councillor, Particles and Fields,
American Physical Society Council, 1996-98
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- MARGARET GARDEL
- Burroughs Wellcome Career Award, 2006
- Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Fellow, 2005
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- STUART GAZES
- Presidential Young Investigator, NSF, 1987
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- ROBERT GEROCH
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1980
- Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award, 1990
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- DAVID GRIER
- Packard Fellow, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, 1994
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2000
- R&D 100 Award for Technical Innovation
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- PHILIPPE GUYOT-SIONNEST
- Prix National des Lasers, Société Française de Physique, 1990
- Packard Fellow, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, 1992
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1996
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- JEFFREY HARVEY
- Presidential Young Investigator, NSF, 1987
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1992
- Louis Block Professor, 1998
- Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor, 2003
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- ROGER HILDEBRAND
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1960
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1968-69
- Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor, 1987
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991
- Norman Maclean Faculty Award, 1999
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- HEINRICH JAEGER
- Fulbright Scholarship, 1980-81
- Packard Foundation Fellowship, 1991
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1992
- Cottrell Scholar, Research Corporation, 1994
- Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Minnesota, 2002
- Fellow, American Physical Society 2002
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2006
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- LEO KADANOFF
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1962-67
- Oliver E. Buckley Prize, American Physical Society, 1977
- National Academy of Sciences, 1978
- Wolf Foundation Award, 1980
- Fellow, American Physical Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1982
- John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor, 1982
- Elliott Cresson Medal, The Franklin Institute, 1986
- Boltzmann Medal, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, 1989
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1990
- Centennial Medal, Harvard University, 1990
- Member, American Philosophical Society, 1997
- Lars Onsager Prize, American Physical Society, 1998
- Grande Medaille d'Or, Academie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, 1998
- National Medal of Science, 1999
- Ryerson Lecturer, 2000
- Honorary Doctor in Science, University of Copenhagen, 2000
- Onsager Medal and Lectureship, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003
- Lorentz Professorship, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2003-2004
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- WOOWON KANG
- Packard Fellow, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, 1995
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- YOUNG-KEE KIM
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1997
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 2004
- Ho-Am Prize, 2005
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- DAVID KUTASOV
- Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, Department of Energy, 1993
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- KATHRYN LEVIN
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1976
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1991
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- RICCARDO LEVI-SETTI
- Prize of the City of Como, Italian Physical Society, 1953
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1963
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1962
- Jacquet-Lucas Award for Excellence in Metallography (with Kamal Soni),
International Metallographic Society, 1995
- Commendatore dell'Ordine al "Merito della Republica Italiana," 1995
- Leonardo da Vinci Award of the Order Sons of Italy in America, 2002
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- ZHENG-TIAN LU
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 2006
- U. S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2000
- U. S. DOE Office of Science Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award, 2000
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- EMIL MARTINEC
- Presidential Young Investigator Award, NSF, 1987
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1987
- Outstanding Junior Investigator, DOE, 1987
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- GENE MAZENKO
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1977
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1987
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- FRANK MERRITT
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1983
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1987
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1997
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- PETER MEYER
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1971
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Alexander von Humboldt Award, Federal Republic of Germany, 1984
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1989
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- DIETRICH MÜLLER
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Alexander von Humboldt Award, Germany, 1997
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- SIDNEY NAGEL
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1979-81
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1988
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1996
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997
- Louis Block Professor, 1998
- Paul Klopsteg Prize, American Association of Physics Teachers, 1998
- Oliver E. Buckley Prize, American Physical Society, 1999
- Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor, 2001
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2003
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- YOICHIRO NAMBU
- Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 1970
- National Academy of Sciences, 1971
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1971
- J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize, 1976
- Order of Culture awarded by Government of Japan, 1978
- Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor, 1978
- National Medal of Science, 1982
- Japan Academy (Honorary Member), 1984
- Max Planck Medal, 1985
- Dirac Medal, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, 1986
- Honorary Doctor of Science, Northwestern University, 1987
- J. J. Sakurai Prize, American Physical Society, 1994
- Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics, 1994-95
- Gian Carlo Wick Commemorative Medal, World Federation of Scientists, 1995
- Honorary degree, Osaka University, 1996
- Foreign Fellow, Georgian Academy of Sciences, 1996
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- REINHARD OEHME
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1963-64
- Humboldt Award, 1974
- Fellow, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, 1976, 1988
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- MARK OREGLIA
- Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1985
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1986
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2001
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- EUGENE PARKER
- Space Science Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1962
- National Academy of Sciences, 1967
- John Fleming Award, American Geophysical Union, 1969
- Henry Arctowski Medal, National Academy of Sciences, 1969
- Honorary D.Sc., Michigan State University, 1975
- George Ellery Hale Award, American Astronomical Society, 1978
- Sydney Chapman Medal, Royal Astronomical Society, 1979
- Distinguished Alumnus Award, California Institute of Technology, 1980
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1986
- James Arthur Prize Lecture, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 1986
- S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor, 1987
- Elected to Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi,
The Norwegian Academy of Science & Letters, 1988
- National Medal of Science, 1989
- William Bowie Medal, American Geophysical Union, 1990
- Karl Schwarzschild Medal, Astronomischen Gessellschaft, 1990
- Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society, 1992
- Ryerson Lecturer, 1997
- Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal, The Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1997
- James Clerk Maxwell Prize, American Physical Society, 2003
- Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, Inamori Foundation, 2003
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- JAMES PILCHER
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1972-76
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1988
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- THOMAS ROSENBAUM
- Presidential Young Investigator Award, NSF, 1984
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1984
- William L. McMillan Prize, 1986
- James Franck Professor, 2001
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- JONATHAN ROSNER
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1971-73
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1981
- Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 1996
- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 2002
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- ROBERT ROSNER
- William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor, 1998
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001
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- JOHN SCHIFFER
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1959-60
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1968
- Humboldt Foundation Award, Technical University of Munich, 1973
- Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society, 1976
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1984
- Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale University, 1985
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1987
- Foreign member, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1996
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998
- Doctor of Science (Honorary), University of Notre Dame, 1999
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- SAVDEEP SETHI
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 2001
- CAREER Grant, National Science Foundation, 2001
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- MELVYN SHOCHET
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1978-82
- Quantrell Award For Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1978
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1989
- Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr. Professor in the Physical Sciences, 1995
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- SIMON SWORDY
- George E. Ehlenbeck Visiting Prof. of Physics, University of Michigan, 1991
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- MICHAEL TURNER
- NSF Fellow, 1971-74
- Compton Lecturer, 1980
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1983
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1983
- Helen B. Warner Prize, American Astronomical Society, 1984
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1986
- Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition, First Award, 1991
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996
- Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, American Physical Society, 1997
- National Academy of Sciences, 1997
- Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor, 1998
- Paul Klopsteg Prize, American Association of Physics Teachers, 1999
- Gravity Research Foundation Essay, 2nd Prize, 1999
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- YAH WAH
- Compton Lecturer, 1986
- DOE Outstanding Young Investigator, 1988
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- Scott Wakely
- Career Grant, National Science Foundation, 2007
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- ROBERT WALD
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1976
- Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 1997
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000
- National Academy of Sciences, 2001
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- PAUL WIEGMANN
- Lady Davis Fellowship, 2001
- Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2003
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- BRUCE WINSTEIN
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1986
- National Academy of Sciences, 1995
- Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor, 1997
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1999-2000
- Hans Bethe Lecturer, Cornell University, 2003-04
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- THOMAS WITTEN
- Case Centennial Scholar Award, Case Western Reserve University, 1980
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1988
- Polymer Physics Prize, American Physical Society, 2002
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, 2002
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- S. COURTENAY WRIGHT
- Fellow, American Physical Society
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