in 1984 melrose received the bôcher memorial prize for his work on scattering theory. since 1986 he has been a fellow of the american academy of arts and sciences. for the academic year 1992–1993 he was a guggenheim fellow. he was in 1978 an invited speaker ("singularities of solutions of boundary value problems") at the icm in helsinki and in 1990 a plenary speaker ("pseudodifferential operators, corners and singular limits") at the icm in kyoto.