Honors
Awards
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1953)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1953)
- Bruce Medal (1973)
- Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1974)
- James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1975)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1978)
- National Medal of Science (1979)
- Franklin Medal (1980)
- Prix Jules Janssen of the French Astronomical Society (1980)
- Crafoord Prize (1985)
Named after him
- Asteroid 2160 Spitzer
- Spitzer Space Telescope
- Lyman Spitzer Library in Davenport College, Yale University
- Lyman Spitzer Building at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in Princeton, NJ
- Answer to the final question on NTN Buzztime's Showdown on September 16, 2008.
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