text: Duane was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1914. In 1920, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. He received the John Scott Medal and the Comstock Prize in Physics from the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was a member, in 1922. He received the Leonard Prize of the American Roentgen Ray Society in 1923.
  He was awarded honorary Sc.D degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1922 and the University of Colorado Boulder in 1923.
  In 1971, the physics department building at the University of Colorado Boulder was named in his honor.