Hans Bethe
In 1987, Peimbert was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences. He was inducted into the Colegio Nacional in Mexico in 1993. Peimbert was named a fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences, and he was awarded one of the three TWAS Medal Lectures the first year they were held (1996). He received the Hans Bethe Prize from the American Physical Society in 2012. Peimbert and his wife, fellow UNAM faculty member Silvia Torres, were the first non-U.S. scientists to win the Hans Bethe Prize. Peimbert was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002.