Awards and Honors
- Penrose Medal, 1974 (posthumously)
- Walter H. Bucher Medal, 1974
- William Bowie Medal, 1957
- Arthur L. Day Medal, 1949
- John J. Carty Award of the National Academy of Sciences, 1963
- Distinguished Public Service Award, 1955
- Sidney Powers Memorial Medal, 1968
- Robert Earl McConnell Award, 1973
- National Medal of Science, 1973
- Vega Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, 1965
- Cullum Geographical Medal of the American Geographical Society, 1961
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1964
- Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Elected to the American Philosophical Society
- Foreign Member of the Geological Society of London, 1964
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1938, 1953, 1955
- Awarded eleven honorary degrees.
- Geophysics Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch Marine Science Institute was renamed Maurice Ewing Hall.
- The Maurice Ewing Medals of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Geophysical Union were named after him.
- The lunar wrinkle ridge Dorsa Ewing was named after him.
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