Honors & Awards
2011 The Kyoto Prize, Inamori Foundation
2002 Bower Prize, Franklin Institute
2001 Emil Heyn Medal, German Metallurgical Society
2001 Honorary Life Member, American Ceramic Society
1999 Bakhuys Roozeboon Lecturer and Gold medal, Netherlands Academy of Sciences
1999 Finalist, World Technology Award for Materials, The Economist
1999 Fellow, World Technology Network, National Museum of Science and Technology, London
1998 National Medal of Science
1998 Member, National Academy of Engineering
1998 Distinguished GE Lecturer in Materials Science at RPI
'69 & `98 MacDonald Lecturer, Canadian Metallurgical Society
1996 Doctor Honoris Causis, Universite d'Évry, France
1995 Harvey Prize, Technion.
1994 Rockwell Medal; Hall of Fame for Engineering, Science and Technology, and Medal, International Technology Institute.
1994 Gold Medal, Honorary Member, Japan Institute of Metals.
1993 Inland Steel Lecture, Northwestern University.
1993 Hume–Rothery Award, TMS.
1993 Cyril Stanley Smith Lecturer, University of Chicago.
1992 Honorary member, MRS-India.
1991 Michelson and Morley Prize, Case Western University.
1990 Honorary Sc. D., Northwestern University; Hilliard Lecturer.
1989 Sauveur Award, ASM International.
1987 Distinguished Physics Lecturer, Boston University.
1986 Stratton Award, National Bureau of Standards.
1985 Von Hippel Award, Materials Research Society.
1984 Gold Medal, US Department of Commerce.
1983 Distinguished Lecturer, University of Connecticut.
1982 Golick Lecturer, University of Missouri, Rolla, MO.
1981 Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
1981 Dickson Prize, Carnegie–Mellon University.
1980 Honorary Professor, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
1979 Van Horn Lecturer, Case-Western University.
1978 Dorn Lecturer, Northwestern University.
1977 Acta Metallurgica Gold Medal.
1974 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1973 Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1968 Institute of Metals Lecturer, AIME.
1966 S. B. Meyer Award, American Ceramic Society.
1960–61 Guggenheim Fellowship spent at the University of Cambridge, Goldsmith Laboratory.
1951 Allied Chemical and Dye Fellowship at University of California, Berkeley.
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