1968: National 1st Prize, Westinghouse Sci. Talent Search. 1968-1972: Marshall Scholarship. 1983-1986: Searle Scholar. 1991: Passano Foundation Young Scientist Award; W. Alden Spencer Award in Neurobiology, Columbia Univ. 1995: Artois-Baillet-Latour Health Prize, Belgium; Gairdner Foundation Intl. Award, Canada; elected to U.S. Institute of Medicine. 1998: elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences and National Academy of Sciences. 2002: Award for Creative Invention, Am. Chem. Soc.; Anfinsen Award, Protein Society; Heineken Prize for Biochem. & Biophys., Royal Netherlands Academy of Sci. 2003: Todd Visiting Prof. of Chemistry, Univ. Cambridge, UK; Keith Porter Lectureship, Am Soc. Cell Biol.. 2004: Wolf Prize in Medicine, Israel (shared with R. Weinberg); Grass Foundation Lectureship, Soc. for Neurosci.; Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio Univ., Tokyo. 2005: Perl Prize in Neurosci., Univ. N. Carolina; J. Allyn Taylor Intl. Prize in Medicine, Robarts Institute, London, Ontario. 2006: Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in the Basic Med. Sci., Brandeis Univ.; elected as Foreign Member Royal Society of London. 2008: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with O. Shimomura and M. Chalfie); E.B. Wilson Medal, Am. Soc. Cell Biol. 2009: Exceptional Achievement Award, Society for Molecular Imaging