Guggenheim Fellowship, 1962
Spent at Imperial College, University of London

Wash U Founders Day award, 1975

Election to Phi Beta Kappa (Washington U), May 1990
(Elected as a faculty member)

Kemper Foundation Faculty Grants to Improve Teaching, April 1993

Wash U MLA Dean's Award, 1994

Wash U Endowed Friedlander Scholarship, 1999

St. Louis Academy of Science
Outstanding Scientists Award, April 2012

2018: Michael Friedlander Fellowship
for a graduate student in physcs
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