Award and Honors
- Fellow of the American Physical Society (1939)
- Collier Trophy of the National Aeronautics Association (1946)
- Member of the National Academy of Science (1947)
- Presidential Medal for Merit (1947)
- Fellow of the American Philosophical Society (1953)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1958)
- California Scientist of the Year (1960)
- Albert Einstein Award (1961)
- National Medal of Science (1963)
- Michelson Award (1965)
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1968)
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1969)
- University of Chicago Alumni Medal (1978 )
- National Inventors Hall of Fame (1978)
- Enrico Fermi award of the US Department of Energy (1987)
- IEEE Honorary Membership (1988)
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