Awards
- 1976 - 78 Exhibition - Senior Scholarship at King's College, Cambridge University
- 1978 - 79 Prizes based on performance in undergraduate (Tripos) exams
- 1981 - 82 IBM Predoctoral Fellowship
- 1983 - 86 Junior Fellowship, Harvard Society of Fellows
- 1987 - 91 A. P. Sloan Fellowship
- 1988 - Fellow of Ashdown House (Graduate Dormitory), MIT
- 1988 Bergmann Memorial Research Award
- 1989 - Presidential Young Investigator Award
- 1990 Graduate Student Departmental Teaching Award
- 1990 -92 MIT Class of 1948 Professor (Career Development Chair)
- 1991 Edgerton Award for Junior Faculty Achievements at MIT
- 1992 The Beuchner Teaching Prize, Physics Department
- 1993 School of Science Prize in Graduate Teaching
- 2001 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
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