Lynn Margulis award received William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement
Awards and recognitions
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975.
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978.
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983.
Guest Hagey Lecturer, University of Waterloo, 1985
Miescher-Ishida Prize in 1986.
1989, conferred the Commandeur de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques de France.
Has her papers permanently archived in the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
1992, recipient of Chancellor's Medal for Distinguished Faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
1995, elected Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.
1997, elected to the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
1998, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
1998, elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1999, recipient of the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement.
1999, recipient of the National Medal of Science, awarded by President William J. Clinton.
2001, Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
2002–05, Alexander von Humboldt Prize.
2005, elected President of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.
Profiled in Visionaries: The 20th Century's 100 Most Important Inspirational Leaders, published in 2007.
Founded Sciencewriters Books in 2006 with her son Dorion.
Was one of thirteen recipients in 2008 of the Darwin-Wallace Medal, heretofore bestowed every 50 years, by the Linnean Society of London.
2009, speaker at the Biological Evolution Facts and Theories Conference, held at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome aimed at promoting dialogue between evolutionary biology and Christianity.
2010, inductee into the Leonardo da Vinci Society of Thinking at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona.
2010, NASA Public Service Award for Astrobiology.
2012, Lynn Margulis Symposium: Celebrating a Life in Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 23–25, 2012
2017, the Journal of Theoretical Biology 434, 1–114 commemorated the 50th anniversary of "The origin of mitosing cells" with a special issue
Honorary doctorate from 15 universities.
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