National Academy of Sciences

Peter Saulson, Elected Member, 2026

M. Cristina Marchetti, Elected Member, 2019

Peter Saulson, Award for Scientific Discovery, 2017

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Fellows

Duncan Brown, 2026
Citation: For foundational contributions enabling the search for and discovery of gravitational waves from black hole and neutron star coalescences, and for leadership in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Cosmic Explorer.

Lisa Manning, 2026
Citation: For distinguished contributions to the theory of mechanical response and adaptation in biological materials.

Marina Artuso, 2024
Citation: For leadership in experimental particle physics, particularly in studies of the B-meson and development of new and innovative instrumentation.

Jennifer Ross, 2023
Citation: For distinguished contributions to biophysics, particularly for experimentally elucidating regulatory mechanisms in intracellular transport.

Alan Middleton, 2016
Citation: Not available

M. Cristina Marchetti, 2013
Citation: Not available

American Physical Society: Prizes

Alison Patteson, Maria Goeppert Mayer Prize, 2024
Citation: For important contributions in characterizing the physics of living systems, including demonstrating how mechanics influences the collective behavior of bacteria and how intermediate filaments in a cell's cytoskeleton impact its mechanics, migration, and signaling.

M. Cristina Marchetti, Leo P. Kadanoff Prize, 2019
Citation: For original contributions to equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, including profound work on equilibrium and driven vortex systems, and fundamental research and leadership in the growing field of active matter.

Sheldon Stone, W. K. H. Panofsky Prize, 2019
Citation: For transformative contributions to flavor physics and hadron spectroscopy, in particular through intellectual leadership on detector construction and analysis on the CLEO and Large Hadron Collider beauty experiments, and for the long-standing, deeply influential advocacy for flavor physics at hadron colliders.

Lisa Manning, Maria Goeppert Mayer Prize, 2018
Citation: for her use of computational and analytical tools to develop microscopic understanding of flow in disordered materials, ranging from metallic glasses to biological tissues.

Peter Bergmann, Einstein Prize, 2003

American Physical Society: Fellows

Jennifer Schwarz, 2023
Citation: For influential contributions to the statistical physics of disordered systems, particularly in the development of models concerning correlated percolation, as well as models related to rigidity transitions in both living and nonliving matter.

Stefan Ballmer, 2021
Citation: For a critical role in the design and commissioning of the Advanced LIGO detectors and the scientific interpretation of their observations, for leadership in the development of third-generation gravitational-wave detectors, and mentoring of the next generation of gravitational-wave experimenters.

Lisa Manning, 2019
Citation: For microscopic theory of flow and rigidity in disordered and biological materials.

Christian Santangelo, 2019
Citation: For seminal theoretical contributions exploiting geometry and topology to understand the elasticity of soft materials.

Jennifer Ross, 2018
Citation: For significantly advancing understanding of the self-organizational principles of the microtubule cytoskeleton via motor proteins and severing enzymes and how that organization affects intracellular transport. Also, for outstanding service to DBIO and the biophysics community.

Simon Catterall, 2016
Citation: For numerous important contributions to computational physics and lattice field theory through studies of gravity, technicolor, and especially the lattice formulation of supersymmetric field theories.

Duncan, Brown, 2014
Citation: For leadership in all aspects of the search for gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences, including algorithms, waveform templates, pipelines, statistical interpretation, and connection with general relativity and astrophysics.

Eric Schiff, 2011
Citation: For pioneering applied physics research on thin film silicon photovoltaic materials and devices.

A. Alan Middleton, 2010
Citation: For his innovative numerical studies of the dynamical and static properties of disordered condensed matter systems, including charge density waves, spin glasses and disordered elastic media.

Marina Artuso, 2007
Citation: For achievements in building RICH and silicon detectors for high energy experiments and for studies of heavy quark decays.

Mark Glauser, 2007
Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Citation: For his innovative use of multi-point low-dimensional methods to elucidate key physics associated with time dependent flow phenomena for flow control applications in turbulent jets, shear layers and separated flows.

Gianfranco Vidali, 2006
Citation: In recognition of significant contributions to our understanding of atom-surface interactions and seminal experimental investigations in astrochemistry.

Mark Bowick, 2004
Citation: With formidable analytic skills, numerical simulations and energetic collaborations with experimentalists, Mark Bowick has made significant contributions to understanding polymerized membranes and defect arrays in frozen topographies.

Peter Bergmann, 2003
Citation: For pioneering investigations in general relativity, including gravitational radiation, quantum gravity, black holes, space time singularities, and symmetries in Einstein's equations, and for leadership and inspiration to generations of researchers in general relativity.

Peter Saulson, 2003
Citation: For his contributions to experimental gravitational physics including pioneering studies of thermal mechanisms affecting interferometer performance and for his educational contributions including authoring one of the most influential books in the field.

M. Cristina Marchetti, 2000
Citation: For contributions to the theory of the dynamics of vortex matter and charge-density waves.

Tomasz Skwarnicki, 2000
Citation: For original work in the areas of rare b decays and Upsilon spectroscopy and outstanding achievements in detector reconstruction software and detector construction.

Marvin Goldberg, 1999
Citation: For his distinguished career in elementary particle research, including the discovery of the Omega Minus baryon, and other discoveries in meson spectroscopy, science education, and service to the community

Rafael Dolnick Sorkin, 1999
Citation: For his original contributions to quantum gravity based on partially ordered or casual sets of discrete space-time; also for his idea of the role of quantum mechanical entanglement in understanding black hole entropy.

Paul Souder, 1998
Citation: For precise measurements of the effects of electroweak interactions in few-body systems, leading to fundamental information about muonium, muonic helium, and the spin structure of the nucleon.

Sheldon Stone, 1993
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the study of b-quark decays.

Bruce Hudson, 1993
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
Citation: For pioneering achievements in molecular spectroscopy and development of novel laser Raman techniques, for excellence in training scientists and for distinguished service to the chemical physics community.

Aiyalam Balachandran, 1988
Citation: For originating work of seminal importance on nonperturbative, geometrical, and topological aspects of field theory and his work on solitons, monopoles, and non-Abelian anomalies.

Nahmin Horwitz, 1988
Citation: For contributions to the study of elementary particles.

Joshua Goldberg, 1972
Citation: Not available

Kameshwar Wali, 1968
Citation: Not available

C H Bachman, 1964
Citation: Not available

Nathan Ginsburg, 1957
Citation: Not available

Fritz Rohrlich, 1957
Citation: Not available

W R Fredrickson, 1953
Citation: Not available

P G, Bergmann, 1949
Citation: Not available

Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence

M. Lisa Manning, Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction, 2022

Eric A. Schiff, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011

Marina Artuso, Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction, 2008

Tomasz Skwarnicki, Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction, 2008

Mark Bowick, Exceptional Academic Achievement, 2006

M. Cristina Marchetti, Exceptional Academic Achievement, 2005

Sheldon Stone, Exceptional Academic Achievement, 2003

Rafael Sorkin, Exceptional Academic Achievement, 2001

Arnold Honig, Exceptional Academic Achievement, 1999

Aiyalam Balachandran, Exceptional Academic Achievement, 1990

Abhay Ashtekar, Exceptional Academic Achievement, 1987

Erich Harth, Exceptional Academic Achievement, 1984

Kameshwar C. Wali, 1980

Peter Bergmann, 1979

Cottrell Scholar Award

Alison Patteson, 2023

Lisa Manning, 2015

Duncan Brown, 2010

Jennifer Ross, 2010

Distinguished Professorship

Marina Artuso, 2024

Cristina Marchetti, 2016

Sheldon Stone, 2012

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellows:

Britton Plourde, 2022

Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards

Eric Coughlin, 2022

Sloan Foundation: Fellows

Alison Patteson, 2023

Lisa Manning, 2014

A. Alan Middleton, 1995

Gianfranco Vidali, 1986

Abhay Ashtekar, 1981

Ed Lipson, 1979

Technology Alliance of Central New York (TACNY)

Eric Allan Schiff, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2022

Peter Saulson, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2020

Wasserstrom Prize

Christian Santangelo, 2024

Mark Bowick, 2009

Joseph Schechter, 2001

Abhay Ashtekar, 1992

Aiyalam Balachandran, 1991