Claude Nicollier - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Nicollier has received several awards and honors:

• NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2001)
• NASA Space Flight Medals (1992, 1993, 1996, 1999)
• Prix d'honneur de la Fondation Pro Aero, Switzerland (1992)
• Yuri Gagarin Gold Medal from the International Aeronautical Federation (1994)
• Silver Medal from the Académie Nationale de l'Air et de l'Espace, France (1994)
• Collier Trophy (awarded to the crew of STS-61) from the National Aeronautics Association (1994)
• Prix de l'Université de Lausanne (1994)
• Honorary doctorates from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, and the University of Geneva (both in 1994).
• Honoris Causa from BSL, Business School Lausanne in 2011.
• Swiss Astronomy Award (2007)