Received the Carlsberg Foundation's Research Award for the Natural Sciences by the Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters, October 5, 2011

Named '2011 Distinguished Alum' by Aarhus University, Denmark, September 9, 2011

Named ‘World Dane 2010’ ('Verdensdansker 2010') by global network Danes Worldwide in Elsinore, Denmark, 1 August 2010

Selected National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow by the Dept. of Defense, January 25, 2010

Elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, December 7, 2009

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, April 20, 2009

Awarded the George Ledlie Prize, Harvard University, September, 2008

Elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on January 16 2008

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mallinckrodt Professor
of Physics and of Applied Physics, 2006 to present.

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gordon McKay Professor
of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics, 1999 to 2006.

2004 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award, awarded by the American Association of Physics Teachers. Award citation in the Physics Teacher, Vol. 42, Number 5, page 265, May 2004.

Appointed to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, April 2002.

MacArthur Fellow, appointed by the MacArthur Foundation, October 2001.

The NKT award, awarded by the Danish Physical Society, June 1, 2001.

The Ole Rømer Medal, awarded by the president of the University of Copenhagen, May 23, 2001.

Honorary Degree, Æreshåndværker Kjøbenhavns Håndværkerforening, awarded in the
presence of Her Majesty, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark,Copenhagen, May 22, 2001.

Recipient of the Year 2000 Award from
the TopDanmark Foundation, Copenhagen Denmark, June 19, 2000.

Recipient of the J.C. Jacobsen 200 Year Anniversary Award, Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark, 1989.