page_title: Steven Weinberg
section_title: Honors and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Steven Weinberg / Honors and awards
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Koningin Beatrix ontvangt Nobelprijswinnaars. English: Queen Beatrix receives Nobel laureates: Paul Berg, Christian de Duve, Steven Weinberg, Queen Beatrix, Manfred Eigen, Nicolaas Bloembergen
context_page_description: Steven Weinberg ForMemRS is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.
  He holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments. His research on elementary particles and physical cosmology has been honored with numerous prizes and awards, including in 1979 the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1991 the National Medal of Science. In 2004 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, with a citation that said he is "considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive in the world today." He has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences and Britain's Royal Society, as well as to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  Weinberg's articles on various subjects occasionally appear in The New York Review of Books and other periodicals. He has served as consultant at the U. S.
context_section_description: The honors and awards that Professor Weinberg received include:
  Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from eleven institutions: University of Chicago, Knox College, University of Rochester, Yale University, City University of New York, Dartmouth College, Weizmann Institute, Clark University, Washington College, Columbia University, Bates College.
  American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1968
  Fellow of the American Physical Society, elected 1971
  National Academy of Sciences, elected 1972
  J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, 1973
  Richtmyer Memorial Award (1974)
  Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 1977
  Steel Foundation Science Writing Award, 1977, for writing The First Three Minutes
  Elliott Cresson Medal (Franklin Institute), 1979
  Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979
  Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1981
  Elected to American Philosophical Society (1982) and Philosophical Society of Texas
  James Madison Medal of Princeton University, 1991
  National Medal of Science, 1991
  Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, 1999.
  2002 Humanist of the Year, American Humanist Association
  Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences, American Philosophical Society, 2004
  James Joyce Award, University College Dublin, 2009
caption: Queen Beatrix meets Nobel laureates in 1983. Weinberg is to the left of the queen.
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