Awards & Honors
Major Awards
1984 First Prize Award, Gravity Research Foundation
1986 Presidential Young Investigator Award
1997 Glover Award for Distinction in Physics Achievement and Physics Education, Dickenson College, PA.
2000Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Citation: For global impact as a science communicator and the ability to maintain an active science career while writing several books about physics for the general public.
2001 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, American Physical Society. Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understanding of the early universe, and extraordinary achievement in communicating the essence of physical science to the general public.
2001 Andrew R. Gemant Award, American Institute of Physics. Citation: To Professor Lawrence Krauss for excellence in the interpretation of physics to the public through numerous newspaper and magazine articles, books, lectures, and television productions. Krauss is especially commended for his communication of sound scientific literacy through timely opinion pieces and books, and for his efforts to address incorrect popular interpretations of science disseminated in the mass media.
2002 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award for Atom, An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth and Beyond
2003 Humanism Award, Free Inquirers of Northeast Ohio
2004 Oersted Medal, American Association of Physics Teachers.
2004 Northern Ohio Live Award of Achievement: Science and Technology
2005 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award, American Physical Society, Citation: For major contributions in defending science in the schools through his efforts in combating the opponents of teaching evolution, and for continuing to enhance the public understanding of contemporary physics
2009 Center for Inquiry World Congress Award for Scholarship in the Public Interest.
2009 Friend of Darwin Award, National Center for Science Education
2009 Helen Sawyer Hogg Prize of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and the Astronomical Society of
Canada
2012 National Science Board 2012 Public Service Award
2013 Roma Award Urbs Universalis
2014 Academia Film Olomouc award for Outstanding Communication of Science
2014 Gravity Research Foundation Essay Award
2015 American Humanist Association Humanist of the Year
2016 Richard Dawkins Award
2016 Freedom From Religion's "Emperor Has No Clothes Award"
Other Honors (since 1977)
1977 Senate Graduating Medal, Carleton University
1977-1981 N.R.C. Postgraduate Scholarship
1982-1985 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
1982-83 N.S.E.R.C.Fellowship
1988 Junior Faculty Fellowship,Yale Unversity
1988 Senior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University
1988 Nesbitt Lecturer, Carleton University
1989 Gravity Research Foundation Prize Award
1990 Named Sigma-Xi National Lecturer (1991-92)
1990 Named to "International Leaders in Achievement"
1991 Gravity Research Foundation Prize Award
1993 Named to Ambrose Swasey Chair in Physics
1995 Gravity Research Foundation Prize Award
1996 Innaugural Distinguish Scientist Lecturer for Young People, Ohio Aerospace Institute
1996 Innaugural Distinguished Physics Lecturer, University of Minnesota
1996 Ohio Achievement Award Selection, Northern Ohio Live Magazine
1997 Hays Lecturer, Oberlin College
1997 Great Poets League of Cleveland Honoree 1997
1998 Cleveland Magazine, 50 Most Interesting People of the Year Award
1997-8 University School-Seelbach Visiting Chair
1998 American Physical Society Centennial Lecturer
1998 Henry Steel Lecturer, Mid America Orthopedic Assn.
1998 Commencement Speaker, Hiram College
1998 13th Annual Frank G. and Jean M. Chesley Lectureship, Carleton College
1998 Herzfeld Lecturer, Catholic University
1999 Fellow, American Physical Society
1999- Board of Directors, Physics Entrepeneurship Program.
1999 Gravity Research Foundation Prize Award
1999 Moti Lal Rustgi Memorial Lecturer, SUNY Buffalo
1999 Hendrik de Waard Foundation Lecturer, Groningen, Netherlands
2000 Maurer Memorial Lecturer, University of Arkansas
2000 Vanden Miles Lecturer, Wayne State University
2000 Kallen Lecturer, University of Lund, Sweden.
2000 Benedum Lecturer, University of West Virginia
2000 Great Minds Lecturer, Illinois Math and Science Academy, Aurora IL
2000 Soloist, Holst, The Planets, with The Cleveland Orchestra
2001 Rochester Lecturer, University of Durham, UK
2001 Isaac Asimov Memorial Panelist, American Museum of Natural History, NY
2001 Rorschach Lecturer, Rice University
2001 Shell Lecturer, National Assoc. of Science Teachers
2001 Invited Witness, U.S. House Committee on Science, Session on the Future of Space Exploration
2001 Malstrom Lecturer, Hamline University, Minnesota
2001 Morgan Lecturer, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth Texas
2001 Timothy J. OLeary Distinguished Scientist Lecturer, Gonzaga University
2001 Presidential Inauguration Keynote Speaker Clark University
2001 Campbell Lecturer, Society of Pediatric Urology
2001 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Centenary Lecturer, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
2001 Fermi Centennial Lecturer, Fermilab
2001 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2002 Knight Fellow, Western Reserve Academy
2002 Friedman Lecturer, Penn State University
2002 Milton Lecturer, Syracuse University
2002 Chancellor’s Lecturer, Vanderbilt University
2002 Fellow, Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
2003 Waynick Lecturer, Penn State University
2003 Donald Ross Hamilton Lecturer, Princeton University
2003 Woods Lecturer, Westminster College, PA
2003 New Frontiers in Information Sciences Distinguished Lecturer, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome NY
2003 Commencement Speaker, Carleton University
2003 Five Colleges Lecturer, U Mass. Amherst
2003 William Mahoney Lecturer, U. Mass Amherst
2003 Presidential Lecturer, Clark University
2004 Joe Barnhart Lecturer, Coastal Bend College, TX
2004 Constance Wilson Distinguished Lecturer, Berry College, GA
2004 Maurice and Yetta Glicksman Commencement Lecturer, Brown University
2004 Likover Lecturer, American Civil Liberties Union.
2004 Samuel Newton Taylor Lecturer, Goucher College
2005 Hooker Professor and Lecturer, McMaster University
2005 Rudin Distinguished Scholar Lecturer, Marymount College
2005 First Annual Mel Oakes Distinguished Undergraduate Lecturer, UT. Austin
2005 World Year of Physics Lecturer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2005 Benson Lecturer, Miami University
2005 IBM Yorktown Heights Visions Lecturer
2005 NASA Huntsville, World Year of Physics Lecturer
2005 Sigma Pi Sigma Lecturer, Wright State University
2005 Crump Lecturer, St. Andrews School
2005 Presidential Lecturer, University of Tulsa
2005 IBM Lecturer, Wittenberg University
2005 World Year of Physics Lecturer, Severance Hall
2006 Michigan State Science Teacher’s Distinguished Lecturer
2007-8 Phi Beta Kappa National Visiting Scholar
2006- Board of Sponsors, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
2006 Terry Lectureship, Science and Religion, Yale University
2007 Distinguished Scientist Lecture, Brookhaven National Laboratory
2007 Concordia University Distinguished Scientist Lecturer
2007 Gravity Research Foundation Prize Award
2007 Michelson Centenary Lecturer, US Naval Academy.
2007 Inaugural Beyond Institute Lecturer, Arizona State University
2008 Centennial Lecturer, University of Arkansas
2008 Bradley Lecturer, American Enterprise Institute
2008 2008 Michigan State University Distinguished Lecturer
2009 National Lecturer, Australian National Science Week
2010 Todd Lecturer, Butler University
2010 Woods Lecturer, Norwich University.
2010 Smith Lecturer, Davidson College
2010 Distinguished University Lecturer, U. Alberta, Edmonton
2010- Distinguished Visiting Professor, Australian National University
2011 James and Jean Davis Prestige Visiting Fellow, Otaga University
2011 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, University of Melbourne
2012 Irving K. Barber Lecture, University of British Columbia
2012 The Littleton-Franklin Lecture, Auburn University
2012 Institute of Physics Lecturer, Hobart Tasmania
2012 Math for America Lecturer, UCSD
2013 Distinguished Lecturer Award, Medical Health Physics Society
2013 Distinguished Lecturer, Williams College
2013 Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin
2013 Distinguished Dean’s Lecturer, Radcliffe College
2013 Distinguished Lecturer, University of New Orleans
2013 Asimov Panelist, AMNH
2013 Gordon Tomkins Lecture, UC San Francisco
2013 Laureate of International Academy of Humanism
2014 Distinguished Lecturer, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2014 Allele Lecturer, University of Alabama
2014 Michael West Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast
2015 Fetzer Memorial Lecture, Nebraska Wesleyan University
2016 Schrodinger Lecturer, University of Zurich
2016 The President’s Forum for Critical Thought Lecturer, Eastern Washington University
2016 Conway Memorial Lecturer, Conway Hall
2017 Frontiers Lecturer, American Museum of Natural History