Honors and Awards
- National Medal of Science, President of the United States
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
- Member, American Philosophical Society
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Honorary Doctor of Science degree, University of Chicago
- Carl Branden Award, The Protein Society
- Frank Westheimer Prize, Harvard University
- Molecular Bioanalytics Award, German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- European Inventor of the Year Award, European Patent Office
- Distinguished Inventors Award, Intellectual Property Owners Association
- Newcomb Cleveland Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- National Lecturer, Biophysical Society
- ACS Award in Biological Chemistry, American Chemical Society