Faculty Awards

National and International Awards

Hannes Alfvén Medal of the European Geosciences Union
Robert Lysak (2014)

APS Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach
Dan Dahlberg (2014)


John Bardeen Prize
Andrey Chubukov (2018)


Hans A. Bethe Prize
Keith Olive (2018)


Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics
Allen Goldman (2015)
Boris Shklovskii (2018)

Cottrell Scholar
Cynthia Cattell (1997)
Rafael Fernandes (2016)


Dirac Medal and Prize in Theoretical Physics
Mikahil Shifman (2016)
Arkady Vainshtein (2016)

Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator
Yong-Zhong Qian (2000)


Department of Energy Early Career Research Grant
Rafael Fernandes (2014)

Andrew Gemant Award
James Kakalios (2016)


Herzberg Medal of the Canadian Association of Physicists, 1985
Serge Rudaz (1985)

Honorary Degree
James Kakalios, University of Lincoln, UK (2017)


Honorary RAS Fellow
Roberta Humphreys (2014)


Humboldt Foundation Sofia Kovalevskaja Award
Marco Peloso (2007)


Humboldt Research Award
Charles Campbell (1981)
Michel Janssen (2016)
Mikhail Shifman (1993)


International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Young Scientist Prize
Vlad Pribiag (2017)


Landau Prize of Academy of Sciences of USSR
Boris Shklovskii (1986)


Lilienfeld Prize
Mikhail Shifman (2006)


Fritz London Memorial Prize- IUPAP
Allen Goldman (2002)

Millikan Medal, American Association of Physics Teachers
Kenneth Heller (2017)


NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards
Fiona Burnell (2014)
Cynthia Cattell (1995)
Paul Crowell (1998)
Lindsay Glesener (2018)
Martin Greven (2000)
Michael Zudov (2006)


NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
James Kakalios (1990)
Robert Lysak (1985)
Keith A. Olive (1987)
Serge Rudaz (1984-1991)


NASA Medial for Exceptional Scientific Achievement
Robert Pepin (1971)


National Academy of Science
Allen Goldman (2007)
Mikhail Shifman (2018)


Pais Prize
Roger Stuewer (2013)


Blaise Pascal Chair
Mikhail Shifman (2008)

Pomeranchuk Prize, ITEP, Moscow
Arkady Vainshtein (2005)


Sakurai Prize
Mikhail Shifman (1999)
Arkady Vainshteinn (1999)
Mikhail Voloshin (2001)


Simons Foundation Fellow
Tony Gherghetta (2019)


Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Fiona Burnell (2015)
Daniel Cronin-Hennessy (2006)
Paul Crowell (1999)
Dan Dahlberg (1981)
Allen Goldman (1966)
Martin Greven (1999)
Alex Kamenev (2004)
Ronald Poling (1988)
Vlad Pribiag (2017)

USSR Academy of Sciences Medal and Award
Mikhail Voloshin (1983)

Julius Wess Award from KCETA in Karlsruhe, Germany
Arkady Vainshtein (2014)

Professional Society Fellowships

AAAS Fellow
Priscilla Cushman (2014)
Dan Dahlberg (1995)
Robert Gehrz (1995)
Allen Goldman (1982)
Martin Greven (2015)
Ken Heller (2013)
Roberta Humphreys (1980)
Jim Kakalios (2013)
Joseph Kapusta (2003)
Marvin Marshak (2014)
Allen Shapiro (1988)


American Geophysical Union Fellow
Cynthia Cattell (2008)
Paul Kellogg (2004)
Robert Lysak (2011)
Robert Pepin (1993)


APS Fellow
Benjamin Bayman (1984)
Charles E. Campbell (1991)
Cynthia Cattell (2010)
Paul Crowell (2008)
Priscilla Cushman (2013)
Dan Dahlberg (1996)
Rafael Fernandes (2017)
Robert Gehrz (2004)
Tony Gherghetta (2015)
Allen Goldman (1984)
Martin Greven (2007)
J. Woods Halley (1998)
Shaul Hanany (2012)
Kenneth Heller (1995)
Cheng-Cher Huang (1993)
Michel Janssen (2012)
Thomas W. Jones (2013)
James Kakalios (2015)
Alexander Kamenev (2013)
Joseph Kapusta (1992)
Paul Kellogg (1960)
Robert Lysak (2013)
Vuk Mandic (2017)
Marvin Marshak (2004)
Keith A. Olive (2003)
Natalia Perkins (2016)
Ronald Poling (1998)
Clement Pryke (2016)
Serge Rudaz (1995)
Roger Rusack (2015)
Mikhail Shifman (1997)
Boris Shklovskii (1994)
Evan Skillman (2018)
Arkady Vainshtein (1997)
Oriol Valls (1998)
Jorge Viñals (2013)
Mikhail Voloshin (1997)
John Wygant (2016)
William Zimmerman, Jr. (1998)
Michael Zudov (2015)

Fellow of the Geochemical Society and European Association for Geochemisty
Robert Pepin (2007)


Fellow of the Meteoritical Society
Robert Pepin (1980)


Fellow of Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA)
Martin Greven (2018)

University of Minnesota Awards

A.S. Fine Chair in Theoretical Physics
Boris Shklovskii (1990)

Gloria Becker Lubkin Chair in Theoretical Physics
Arkady Vainshtein (1990)

Ida Cohen Fine Chair in Theoretical Physics
Mikhail Shifman (2005)

McKnight Land Grant Professorship
Paul Crowell (1999)
Rafel Fernandes (2015)
Shaul Hanany (2001)
Alex Kamenev (2005)
Yuichi Kubota (1990)
James Kakalios (1989)
Vuk Mandic (2010)
Joachim Mueller (2004)
Vlad Pribiag (2019)

Distinguished McKnight University Professorship
Martin Greven (2018)
Vuk Mandic (2019)
Keith Olive (1998)

McKnight Presidential Fellow
Paul Crowell (2004)
Rafael Fernandes (2017)
Yong-Zhong Qian (2004)

Regents Professorship
Allen Goldman (2008)
Edward Ney (1974)
Alfred O.C. Nier (1966)

John T. Tate Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising
Marvin Marshak (1996)

CSE Distinguished Professor (formerly IT Distinguished Professorship)
E. Dan Dahlberg (1998)
Allen M. Goldman (1992)
Kenneth J. Heller (2007)
Roberta Humphreys (2001)
Marvin Marshak

Horace T. Morse Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education
Kenneth Heller (1997)
Terry Jones (2008)
Roger Jones (1995)
Marvin Marshak (1994)
Robert Pepin (2000)
Serge Rudaz (2012)
Lawrence Rudnick (1998)

Horace T. Morse Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate and Professional Education
Dan Dahlberg (2018)
Allen Goldman (2012)

George W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research
Kenneth Heller (1989)
Roberta Humphreys (1985)
Joseph Kapusta (1984)
Vuk Mandic (2017)
Keith Olive (1988)

George W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Service
Charles Campbell (2001)
Cynthia Cattell (2011)
E. Dan Dahlberg (2005)
James Kakalios (2018)
Marvin Marshak (1996)
Robert Pepin (2002)
Lawrence Rudnick (2004)
Thomas Walsh (1986)

George W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Teaching
Charles Campbell (2001)
Cynthia Cattell (2011)
Paul Crowell (2018)
E. Dan Dahlberg (2005))
Rafael Fernandes (2017)
Robert Lysak (1989)
Marvin Marshak (1996)
Robert Pepin (2002)
Lawrence Rudnick (2004)
Thomas Walsh (1986)

George W. Taylor Career Development Award
Dan Cronin-Hennessy (2010)

Mullen/Spector/Truax Women's Leadereship Award
Cynthia Cattell (2015)
Roberta Humphreys (2008))

William I. and Bianca M. Fine Chair in Theoretical Physics
Andrey Chubukov (2013)

Other Awards

APS Outstanding Referee Award
Allen M. Goldman (2008)
Alexander Grosberg (2008)
C. C. Huang (2008)
Mikhail Voloshin (2008)


Bush Fellowship
J. Woods Halley (1983-1984)


Clifford C. Furnas Memorial Award of the University of Buffalo
Ronald Poling (1998)


Fulbright Fellow, Institute for Teoretisk Fysik, Denmark
Paul Kellogg (1954)


J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Yong-Zhong Qian (1998)


Millikan Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
Vuk Mandic (2004)


Miller Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Oriol Valls (1977)


David W. Morrisroe Fellow, California Institute of Technology
Yong-Zhong Qian (1995)


NSF Postdoctoral Fellow- University of Paris, Orsay
J. Woods Halley (1965)


NRC-NAS Fellow Naval Research Laboratory
Paul Kellogg (1955)