sentences:  The Chicago Citizenship Council nominated him Outstanding New Citizen in 1962, and in the same year he received the Immigrants Service League’s Annual Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Science, and was named Chicago Man of the Year in Science.He won the Man of the Year Award for Industrial Research in 1970 and was awarded the Albert A. Michelson Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1977 and the Distinguished Service Award of the Electron Microscope Society of America in 1976.He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.