text: * He was the eponym of the Lyman series of spectral lines. 
  * The crater  Lyman on the far side of the Moon is named after him. 
  * He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1901.
  * He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1917.
  * He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1918.
  * He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1931.
  * The Lyman Laboratory of Physics at Harvard University is named after him.