text: Ryle was awarded numerous prizes and honours including:
  * Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1952
  *Hughes Medal (1954)
  *Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1964)
  *Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize (1965)
  *Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1965)
  *Albert A. Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1971)
  *Royal Medal (1973)
  *Bruce Medal (1974)
  *Nobel Prize in Physics (1974)
  *Ryle Telescope at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
  * In 1965 Ryle co-delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on Exploration of the Universe.