Department News Archive: Faculty Awards

2026:

• Roslyn Abramson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching:
  Julia Mundy
• John Stewart Bell Prize:
  Mikhail Lukin
• Brown Investigator Award:
  Kang-Kuen Ni
• Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2025:
  Michael Brenner, Douglas Finkbeiner, Markus Greiner, Efthimios Kaxiras, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Andrew Strominger, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Suyang Xu, and Xiaowei Zhuang
• National Academy of Sciences
  L. Mahadevan
• National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science Fellowship:
  Carlos Argüelles-Delgado
• Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) Ardentec Prize:
  Norman Yao
• Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) Bridge Award:
  Carlos Argüelles-Delgado
• Sloan research Fellows:
  Eslam Khalaf, Matteo Mitrano

2025:

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences:
  Hongkun Park
• U.S. ATLAS Lifetime Achievement Award: 
  John Huth
• Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics:
  ATLAS Collaboration (Harvard Physics faculty: Melissa Franklin, John Huth, and Masahiro Morii
• Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2024:
  Michael Brenner, Markus Greiner, Efthimios Kaxiras, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Suyang Xu, Norman Yao, and Xiaowei Zhuang
• Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship:
  Stefan Knirck, Matthew Reece, Sunghan Ro, Christopher Stubbs, and Norman Yao
• Frontiers of Science Award: 
  Bertrand I. Halperin, Daniel Jafferis, and Andrew Strominger
• German Research Foundation Mercator Fellow:
  Matteo Mitrano
• GSAS Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Awards:
  Jacob Barandes
• Harvard Yearbook's Favorite Professor of the Class of 2025:
  Jacob Barandes
• Honorary Doctorate, honoris causa, University of Pennsylvania (May 19, 2025):
  Lene Hau
• William F. Meggers Award: 
  John Doyle
• National Academy of Sciences: 
  John Doyle
• SCALE Capital award:
  Julia Mundy
• Sloan Foundation Fellowship:
  Jordan Cotler
• Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research:
  John Kovac
• University Professorship:
  Cumrun Vafa

2024:

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow:
  Howard Georgi
• Anya Bassett Bernstein Prize for Excellence in Teaching:
  Jacob Barandes, Louis Deslauriers
• APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics Fellowship:
  Jenny Hoffman
• ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Award:
  Masahiro Morii
• Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (Franklin Institute):
  David Weitz
• Brain Prize from the Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark:
  Haim Sompolinsky
• Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2023:
  Michael Brenner, Markus Greiner, Efthimios Kaxiras, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Suyang Xu, Norman Yao, and Xiaowei Zhuang
• CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholarship:
  Carlos Argüelles-Delgado
• Cottrell Scholar Award:
  Carlos Argüelles-Delgado
• FAS Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship:
  Cora Dvorkin, Jenny Hoffman, Eslam Khalaf, Philip Kim, and Amir Yacoby
• Honorary Doctorate, honoris causa, University of Southern Denmark (October 25, 2024)
  Lene Hau
• Moore Inventor Fellowship:
  Julia Mundy
• National Brown Investigator Award:
  Norman Yao
• Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries:
  John Doyle
• NSF CAREER award:
  Julia Mundy
• Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize:
  Ashvin Vishwanath
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
  Norman Yao
• PROSE Award:
  Subir Sachdev
• I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics:
  Norman Yao
• Weldon Memorial Prize:
  L. Mahadevan

2023:

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences: 
  L. Mahadevan
• American Philosophical Society membership: 
  Lene Hau
• 2023 New Horizons in Physics Breakthrough Prize:
  Kang-Kuen Ni
• Brilliant 10 class of 2023 (Popular Science): 
  Carlos Argüelles-Delgado
• Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2022: 
  Michael Brenner, Markus Greiner, Efthimios Kaxiras, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Su-Yang Xu, Norman Yao, and Xiaowei Zhuang
• Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship: 
  Eric Heller, Matteo Mitrano
• Foreign Member of the Royal Society in the UK: 
  Subir Sachdev
• Franklin Institute annual award in the sciences and business: 
  Philip Kim
• Harvard College Professorship: 
  Mara Prentiss
• International Congress for Basic Science Frontiers of Science Award: 
  Matthew Reece
• International Institute of Science Distinguished Lecturer, Bangalore: 
  David Nelson
• International Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences: 
  Philip Kim
• 2024 IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter: 
  Matteo Mitrano
• NSF CAREER award: 
  Carlos Argüelles-Delgado
• 2023 Packard Fellowship: 
  Carlos Argüelles-Delgado
• Sir C.V. Raman Memorial Lecturer, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore: 
  David Nelson
• Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Chemistry: 
  Adam Cohen
• 2023 Simons Investigator in Physics: 
  Daniel Jafferis
• University Professorship: 
  Mikhail Lukin
• 2023 Jacques Solvay International Chair in Physics: 
  Subir Sachdev
• 2023 Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research: 
  Vinothan Manoharan, Matteo Mitrano, Julia Mundy
• Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation:
  Cumrun Vafa
• Harvard Yearbook's Favorite Professor of the Class of 2023: 
  Jacob Barandes, Cora Dvorkin

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