Honors and Awards

Nobel Laureates

Nobel Prize winners
(top) Richard Smalley and Robert Curl '54 received the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Harold Kroto for their discovery of fullerenes.
(bottom left) Robert Woodrow Wilson '57 shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics with Arno Penzias for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.

Louis Brus '65
Robert Curl '54, Chemistry (deceased)
Hermann J. Muller, Biology, 1915-1918 (deceased)
Roger Penrose, Mathematics, 1983-1987
Richard Smalley, Chemistry (deceased)
Robert Woodrow Wilson '57

Wolf Prize

K.C. Nicolaou, Chemistry

National Academy of Sciences

Bonnie Bartel, Biosciences
Reese Harvey, Mathematics (emeritus)
K.C. Nicolaou, Chemistry
José Onuchic, Physics and Astronomy
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Physics and Astronomy
Peter Rossky, Chemistry
Peter Wolynes, Chemistry

National Academy of Engineering

James Tour, Chemistry

National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal

Neal Lane, Physics and Astronomy (emeritus)

American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Bonnie Bartel, Biosciences
Randall Hulet, Physics and Astronomy
Neal Lane, Physics and Astronomy (emeritus)
K.C. Nicolaou, Chemistry
José Onuchic, Physics and Astronomy
Peter Rossky, Chemistry
Peter Wolynes, Chemistry

American Philosophical Society

K.C. Nicolaou, Chemistry
Peter Wolynes, Chemistry

Franklin Medal

K.C. Nicolau, Chemistry
Peter Vail, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (emeritus)

Guggenheim Fellows

Nets Katz '90, Mathematics
Cin-Ty Lee, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Gustavo Scuseria, Chemistry
Peter Wolynes, Chemistry

National Science Foundation CAREER Awards (2014- )

Stephen Bradshaw, Physics and Astronomy
James Chappell, Biosciences
Sylvia Dee, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Kory Evans, Biosciences
Matthew Foster, Physics and Astronomy
Melodie French, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Kaden Hazzard, Physics and Astronomy
Raúl Hernández Sánchez, Chemistry
Matthew Jones, Chemistry
László Kürti, Chemistry
Brandon Levin, Mathematics
Jo Nelson Mathematics
Andriy Nevidomskyy, Physics and Astronomy
Guido Pagano, Physics and Astronomy
Megan Reiter, Physics and Astronomy
Hans Renata, Chemistry
Evelyn Tang, Physics and Astronomy
Mark Torres, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Christopher Tunnell, Physics and Astronomy
Rosa Uribe, Biosciences
Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, Mathematics
Aryeh Warmflash, Biosciences
Yonglong Xie, Physics and Astronomy
Laurence Yeung, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

Packard Fellows

Rajdeep Dasgupta, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Matthew Jones, Chemistry
Thomas Killian, Physics and Astronomy
Cin-Ty Lee, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Douglas Natelson, Physics and Astronomy
Laurence Yeung, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

PECASE Award

David Alexander, Physics and Astronomy
Wei Li, Physics and Astronomy
Emilia Morosan, Physics and Astronomy