Research and Achievements
He received the Samuel F.B. Morse Medal upon graduation (summa cum laude) from NYU, and was a member of Sigma Pi Sigma and Tau Beta Pi. He received a National Science Foundation Fellowship 52–53 and was a Shell Oil Fellow 56–57 at Harvard University. Three issues of Foundations of Physics were dedicated to him on the occasion of his 65 birthday . He received an Outstanding Referee Award from the American Physical Society in 2008.
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