Awards and Honors
- The crater Swasey on the Moon is named after him, as is the asteroid 992 Swasey.
- At CWRU, the chair of "Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics" was named for his endowment. (Lawrence M. Krauss was named to this position in 1993.)
- In 1932 he was awarded the Franklin Medal.
- In 1936 he was awarded the Hoover Medal.
- Swasey was a member of the United States National Research Council.
- In 1982 Swasey was elected to the Machine Tool Hall of Fame of the American Precision Museum.
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