Awards
- Miller Research Fellowship, 1980–1982
- Otto Hahn Medaille, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 1980
- Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1984
- Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, American Astronomical Society, 1986
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1990
- De Vaucouleurs Medal, University of Texas, 2000
- Prix Jules Janssen, French Astronomical Society, 2000
- Stern Gerlach Medal for experimental physics, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, 2003
- Balzan Prize for Infrared Astronomy, 2003
- Albert Einstein Medal, 2007
- Shaw Prize, 2008
- "Galileo 2000" Prize, 2009
- Karl Schwarzschild Medal, Deutsche Astronomische Gesellschaft, 2011
- Crafoord Prize, Royal Swedish Academy, 2012
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