Awards and Honors
- James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union (1966)
- Apollo Achievement Award of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1969
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1972)
- Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1977) (Viking Mission Scientists)
- NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1977)
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1982)
- Honorary Foreign Fellow of the European Union of Geosciences (1985)
- Emil Wiechert Medal of the German Geophysical Society (1986)
- Arthur L. Day Medal of the Geological Society of America (1987)
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1988)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1988)
- Member of the American Philosophical Society (1990)
- William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union (1991)
- Guggenheim Fellow (1998)
- Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (1998 with Dziewonski)
- National Medal of Science (1998)
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