text: *1962 - Stuart Ballantine Medal
  *1963 - Young Medal and Prize, for distinguished research in the field of optics presented by the Institute of physics
  *1970 - elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  *1970 - elected to the National Academy of Sciences
  *1976 - awarded the [http://www.osa.org/awards_and_grants/awards/award_description/ivesquinn/ Frederic Ives Medal] by OSA
  *1981 - Nobel Prize for Physics
  *1983 - Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
  *1984 - elected to the American Philosophical Society