Honors
- 1947 — elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society
- 1972 — elected to National Academy of Sciences (the third female physicist to be so honored)
- 1982 — Long Island Achiever’s Award in Science
- 1984 — Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar
- 1990 — Outstanding Woman Scientist Award from the New York Chapter of the Association for Women Scientists
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