Honors
Awards
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society (1955)
- Foreign Scientific Member, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the AAS (1975)
- Médaille, Université de Liège (1969)
- Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1980)
- Petrie Prize and Lectureship of the Canadian Astronomical Society (1995)
Named after him
- Asteroid 11754 Herbig
- Herbig Ae/Be stars
- Herbig-Haro objects
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