2024:
| Carlos Argüelles-Delgado | 2024 Cottrell Scholar Award |
| Howard Georgi | Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| L. Mahadevan | Weldon Memorial Prize |
| Subir Sachdev | 2024 PROSE Award |
| Haim Sompolinsky | Brain Prize from the Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark |
| David Weitz | Franklin Institute's Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science |
2023:
| Carlos Argüelles-Delgado | Brilliant 10 class of 2023 (Popular Science) |
| Carlos Argüelles-Delgado | NSF CAREER award |
| Carlos Argüelles-Delgado | 2023 Packard Fellowship |
| Jacob Barandes, Cora Dvorkin | Harvard Yearbook's Favorite Professor of the Class of 2023 |
| Michael Brenner, Markus Greiner, Efthimios Kaxiras, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Su-Yang Xu, Norman Yao, Xiaowei Zhuang | Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2022 |
| Adam Cohen | Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Chemistry |
| John Doyle | Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries |
| Lene Hau | American Philosophical Society membership |
| Eric Heller, Matteo Mitrano | Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship |
| Daniel Jafferis | 2023 Simons Investigator in Physics |
| Philip Kim | Franklin Institute annual award in the sciences and business |
| Philip Kim | International Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences |
| Mikhail Lukin | University Professorship |
| L. Mahadevan | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Matteo Mitrano | 2024 IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter |
| David Nelson | International Institute of Science Distinguished Lecturer, Bangalore |
| David Nelson | Sir C.V. Raman Memorial Lecturer, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| Mara Prentiss | Harvard College Professorship |
| Vinothan Manoharan, Matteo Mitrano, Julia Mundy | 2023 Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research |
| Matthew Reece | International Congress for Basic Science Frontiers of Science Award |
| Subir Sachdev | Foreign Member of the Royal Society in the UK |
| Subir Sachdev | 2023 Jacques Solvay International Chair in Physics |
| Cumrun Vafa | Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| Ashvin Vishwanath | 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize |
| Norman Yao | 2023 Simons Investigator in Physics |
2022:
| Carlos Argüelles-Delgado | Science News "Scientists to Watch" |
| Melissa Franklin | Star Family Prize for Excellence in Concentration Advising |
| Markus Greiner, Efthimios Kaxiras, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Su-Yang Xu, Xiaowei Zhuang | Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2021 |
| Arthur Jaffe | Fellow of the Hagler Institute at Texas A&M University |
| Kang-Kuen Ni | 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize |
| Mikhail Lukin | 2022 Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries |
| Vinothan Manoharan | Capers and Marion McDonald award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising |
| Matteo Mitrano | DOE Early Career Research Program Award |
| Julia Mundy | 2022 Sloan Research Fellow in Physics |
| Cumrun Vafa | Honorary Fellow of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences |
| Norman Yao | 2023 New Horizons in Physics Breakthrough Prize |
2021:
| Carlos Argüelles-Delgado | 2021 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Astroparticle Physics |
| Carlos Argüelles-Delgado, Roxanne Guenette | Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics |
| Eugene Demler, Markus Greiner, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Subir Sachdev, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Amir Yacoby, Xiaowei Zhuang | Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2020 |
| Eugene Demler | 2021 Simons Investigator in Physics |
| Eugene Demler | 2021 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics |
| John Doyle | Herbert P. Broida Prize |
| Gerald Holton | BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award |
| Paul Horowitz | SETI Institute 2021 Drake Award |
| Mikhail Lukin | Charles Hard Townes Medal |
| L. Mahadevan | 2021 Simons Investigator in Physics |
| Eric Mazur | AAAS Fellowship |
| Matteo Mitrano | Aramont Fellowship |
| Matteo Mitrano | 2021 PRISM Prize, Institute of Structure of Matter, National Research Council (ISM-CNR), Italy |
| Julia Mundy | Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research |
| Julia Mundy | 2021 DOE Early Career Research Program Award |
| Andrew Strominger | Bethe Lectureship |
| Christopher Stubbs | AAAS Fellowship |
| Cumrun Vafa | The Mustafa Prize |
| Ashvin Vishwanath | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Amir Yacoby | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Xiaowei Zhuang | Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences |
2020:
| Eugene Demler, Markus Greiner, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Subir Sachdev, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Amir Yacoby, Xiaowei Zhuang | Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2019 |
| Eugene Demler | Moore Distinguished Scholar (Caltech) |
| John Doyle | Heising-Simons Foundation: N95 Mask Decontamination Grant |
| John Doyle | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (PolyEDM and ACME III) |
| John Doyle | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (PolyEDM) |
| John Doyle, Markus Greiner, Mikhail Lukin, Kang-Kuen Ni | NSF NQI LBNL Quantum Systems Accelerator |
| John Doyle, Susanne Yelin | NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Enhanced Sensing and Distribution Using Correlated Quantum States |
| Roxanne Guenette | 2020 Synergy Grant (European Research Council) |
| Lene Hau | Dirac Medal (University of New South Wales and Australian Institute of Physics ) |
| Philip Kim | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Mikhail Lukin | Engineering Research Center for Quantum Networks |
| Mikhail Lukin | 2020 George Gamow Award |
| Matteo Mitrano | Milton Fund Award |
| Julia Mundy | Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering |
| Andrew Strominger | Guggenheim Fellowships |
| Andrew Strominger | Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics |
| Amir Yacoby | Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage |
| Amir Yacoby | EPiQS Experimental Investigator |
| Amir Yacoby | Quantum Science Center |
2019:
| Eugene Demler, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Amir Yacoby, Xiaowei Zhuang | Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2018 |
| Eugene Demler | Hanna Visiting Scholar (Stanford) |
| Cora Dvorkin | DoE Early Career Award |
| Jenny Hoffman | 2019 Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research |
| Johnn Huth | Star Family Prize for Excellence in Concentration Advising |
| Daniel Jafferis | 2019 New Horizons In Physics Prize |
| Vinothan Manoharan | AAAS Fellow |
| Matteo Mitrano (joining Harvard Physics faculty in July 2020) | 2019 LCLS Young Investigator Award of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory |
| Julia Mundy | George E. Valley, Jr. Prize |
| Julia Mundy | 2019 Materials Research Prize for Young Investigators (ETH Zurich) |
| David Nelson | Niels Bohr Medal of Honour |
| Kang-Kuen Ni | I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics |
| Hongkun Park | A.R. Gordon Distinguished Lecturer (University of Toronto) |
| Lisa Randall | Oskar Klein Medal |
| Lisa Randall | J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics |
| Subir Sachdev | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Subir Sachdev | Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Delhi, 2019 |
| Subir Sachdev | Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru, 2019 |
| Ashvin Vishwanath | INFOSYS-ICTS Chandrasekhar Lecturer 2019 |
| David Weitz | Nature Biotechnology Top 20 Translational Researchers of 2019 |
| Amir Yacoby | National Academy of Sciences |
| Xiaowei Zhuang | 2019 Breakthrough Prize In Life Sciences |
| Xiaowei Zhuang | NAS Award for Scientific Discovery |
2018:
2017:
| Markus Greiner | APS Fellowship |
| Arthur Jaffe | Simons Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences |
| John Kovac | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) |
| Mikhail Lukin | Willis Lamb Award for Quantum Optics and Laser Science |
| Lisa Randall | Harvard Humanist Award, a lifetime achievement award for humanism in culture by The Humanist Community at Harvard and the Humanist Hub |
| Lisa Randall | Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics |
| Andrew Strominger & Cumrun Vafa | 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics |
| Cumrun Vafa | 2017 Ellis Island Medal of Honor |
| Susanne Yelin | APS Fellowship |
2016:
| Howard Georgi | 2016 DPF Mentoring Award, APS Division of Particles and Fields |
| L. Mahadevan | 2016 Royal Society of London Fellowship |
| Kang-Kuen Ni | Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering |
| Lisa Randall | Julius Wess Award, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany |
| Andrew Strominger | Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics |
| Andrew Strominger & Cumrun Vafa | Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics |
| Ashvin Vishwanath | 2016 EPS CMD Europhysics Prize |
| David Weitz | National Academy of Engineering |
2015:
2014:
2013:
2012:
| Eugene Demler | APS Fellowship |
| Lene Hau | APS Fellowship |
| Lene Hau | Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate |
| Jenny Hoffman | Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching |
| Jenny Hoffman | Roslyn Abramson Award |
| Mikhail Lukin | AAAS Fellowship |
| David Morin | Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award |
| Lisa Randall | Andrew Gemant Award |
| Lisa Randall | Harvard's Great Teachers |
| Lisa Randall | member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts |
| Richard Wilson | Andrei Sakharov Prize |
| Richard Wilson | Distinguished Educator Award (Society for Risk Analysis) |
| Amir Yacoby | APS Fellowship |
| Xiaowei Zhuang | APS Fellowship |
| Xiaowei Zhuang | AAAS Fellowship |
| Xiaowei Zhuang | member, National Academy of Sciences |
2011:
| Gerald Gabrielse | Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize |
| Markus Greiner | McArthur Genius Grant |
| Lene Hau | Carlsberg Foundation Research Award (Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters) |
| Mikhail Lukin | APS Fellowship |
| Vinothan Manoharan | Sloan Fellowship |
2010:
| Lene Hau | National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (U.S. Department of Defense) |
| Lene Hau | "World Dane 2010" ("Verdensdansker 2010", global network Danes Worldwide) |
| Lisa Randal | Membership, American Philosophical Society |
| Lisa Randall | Honorary Fellow (IoP) |
| Lisa Randall | Erna Hamburger Prize |
| David Weitz | Membership, American Academy of Arts & Sciences |
| Xiaowei Zhuang | Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics |
2009:
| Lene Hau | AAAS Fellow |
| Lene Hau | Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences |
| Arthur Jaffe | Honorary Members, Royal Irish Academy |
| Mikhail Lukin | 2009 I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics |
| Lisa Randall | Honorary Members, Royal Irish Academy |
| Subir Sachdev | visiting Distinguished Research Chair (Perimeter Institute) |
| Christopher Stubbs | Harvard College Professor |
| Cumrun Vafa | Member, National Academy of Sciences |
2008:
| Nima Arkani-Hamed | Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in the Physical Sciences |
| Lene Hau | George Ledlie Prize |
| Lene Hau | Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
| Gerald Holton | Abraham Pais Prize (APS) |
| Gerald Holton | Order of Merit by the Republic of Austria (Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst, I. Klasse) |
| Eric Mazur | Esther Hoffman Beller Medal (OSA) |
| Eric Mazur | Fellow, OSA |
| Eric Mazur | (American Association of Physics Teachers) |
| Eric Mazur | member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) |
| Hongkun Park | National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Awards |
| Lisa Randall | Member, National Academy of Sciences |
| Aravinthan Samuel | National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Awards |
| Andrew Strominger & Cumrun Vafa | Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics (American Mathematical Society) |
| Cumrun Vafa | Dirac Medal (ICTP) |
| Richard Wilson | Presidential Citations (American Nuclear Society) |
2007:
| Melissa Franklin | Spark Award |
| Bertrand Halperin | Dannie Heineman prize (Akadamie des Wissenschaften of Göttingen) |
| Lisa Randall | Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize |
| Richard Wilson | Dixy Lee Ray Award |
| Christopher Stubbs | Gruber Cosmology Prize, shared with the members of the High-z Supernova Search team |
2006:
| Eugene Demler | Gutenberg Lecture Award |
| Eric Heller | Member, National Academy of Sciences |
| Mikhail Lukin, Charles Marcus, & Amir Yacoby | AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize |
| Norman Ramsey | Honorary Doctor of Science (Harvard) |
| Richard Wilson | Premio Ettore Majorana Erice Scienza per la Pace |
2005:
| Gerald Gabrielse | Alexander von Humboldt Research Award |
| Howard Georgi | Harvard College Professor |
| Roy J. Glauber | Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Eric J. Heller | Award in Theoretical Chemistry (American Chemical Society ) |
| Jenny Hoffman | PECASE Award (Department of Defense) |
| Aravinthan Samuel | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) |
| Michael Tinkham | Dr. Fred E. Saalfeld Award (Department of the Navy) |
| Cumrun Vafa | Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Ronald Walsworth | Francis M. Pipkin Award (APS) |
| Xiaowei Zhuang | Investigator (Howard Hughes Medical Institute ) |