Prizes and Special Recognition
- 1964 Physics Prize of the Academy of Sciences, Göttingen
- 1983 "Fellow" of the American Physical Society
- 1988 Alumni Citation, Brown University
- 1990 Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
- 1991 Gold Heyrovsky Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- 1992 Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize for solid state physics
- 1992 Max-Planck-Prize of the Germany Research Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 1993 Member of the Germany Academy of Natural Scientists "Leopoldina" in Halle, Germany
- 1996 Recipient of the first MOLEC Conference Award
- 1999 Honorary Fellow of the International Molecular Beams Symposium
- 2000 Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- 2002 Stern-Gerlach Gold Medal of the German Physical Society
- 2005 Kolos Medal of University of Warsaw
- 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (with Giacinto Scoles)
- 2007 Honorary Doctorate in Science, Amherst College, MA, USA
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