Editing Alan Lightman (section)

==Major awards and honors==

*Honorary doctoral degrees from Bowdoin College (2005),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/college-history-and-archives/bowdoin-honorary-degree-recipients.shtml|title=Special Collections & Archives: Bowdoin Honorary Degree Recipients|website=library.bowdoin.edu}}</ref> [[Memphis College of Art]] (2006),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mca.edu/about/history/|title=History|website=Memphis College of Art}}</ref> University of Maryland (2006),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://provost.umbc.edu/additional_resources/umbc-honorary-degrees-awarded-and-commencement-speakers/|title=UMBC Honorary Degrees Awarded and Commencement Speakers - Office of the Provost - UMBC|website=provost.umbc.edu}}</ref> University of Massachusetts (2010),<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2010/05/31/commencement_honors_and_speakers/|title=Commencement honors and speakers|first=Mark Shanahan & Meredith|last=Goldstein|newspaper=Boston.com|via=The Boston Globe}}</ref> Colgate University (2017),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.colgate.edu/news/stories/poet-claudia-rankine-deliver-2017-commencement-keynote|title=Poet Claudia Rankine to deliver 2017 commencement keynote &#124; Colgate University|website=www.colgate.edu}}</ref> and Skidmore College (2019)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.skidmore.edu/news/2019/0308-commencement.php|title=Skidmore announces 2019 Commencement speakers|website=www.skidmore.edu}}</ref>
*Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition on September 23, 2019, from the United States House of Representatives for contributions to the global Cambodian community.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://umlseada.omeka.net/items/show/1311|title=U.S. Representative Lori Trahan presenting Alan Lightman with a citation of congratulations during the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event|date=September 23, 2019}}</ref>
*Inaugural winner of 2017 Humanism in Literature award, given by Humanist Hub of Harvard<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Announcing--Alan-Lightman-Accepts-Humanism-in-Literature-Award.html?soid=1101815297099&aid=-xuBRtNWkGw|title=Announcing: Alan Lightman Accepts Humanism in Literature Award|website=myemail.constantcontact.com}}</ref>
*2016 Distinguished Artist of the Year Award from the [[St. Botolph Club]] of Boston<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2016-lightman-receives-distinguished-artist-award-st-botolph-club-foundation|title=MIT SHASS: News - 2016 - Lightman receives Distinguished Artist Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation|website=shass.mit.edu}}</ref>
*2016 Sydney Award for the best magazine essays of 2011, for "What Came Before the Big Bang?", awarded by David Brooks of ''The New York Times''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/the-2016-sidney-awards-part-deux.html|title=Opinion &#124; The 2016 Sidney Awards, Part Deux|first=David|last=Brooks|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 30, 2016}}</ref>
*''Screening Room'' (2015) named by the Washington Post as one of the best books of the year<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-best-nonfiction-of-2015/2015/11/18/326c89e8-7902-11e5-b9c1-f03c48c96ac2_story.html|title=Notable nonfiction of 2015|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref>
*2011 Sydney Award for the best magazine essays of 2011, for "The Accidental Universe," awarded by David Brooks of ''The New York Times''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/opinion/brooks-the-sidney-awards-part-i.html|title=Opinion &#124; The Sidney Awards, Part I|first=David|last=Brooks|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 19, 2011}}</ref>
*Gold Medal for humanitarian service to Cambodia, awarded by the government of Cambodia in 2008
*2006 John P. McGovern Science and Society Award, given by Sigma Xi<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/prizes-awards/william-procter/award-winner/alan-lightman|title=Alan Lightman|website=www.sigmaxi.org}}</ref>
*Finalist for the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award for ''A Sense of the Mysterious''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Massachusetts+Book+Awards%2C+Honor+Book|title=Book awards: Massachusetts Book Awards, Honor Book|access-date=Jan 3, 2020}}</ref>
*2003 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the California Institute of Technology<ref name="Caltech Names Distinguished Alumni"/>
*Finalist for the 2000 National Book Award in fiction for ''The Diagnosis''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/people/alan-lightman/|title=Alan Lightman}}</ref>
*1998 Gyorgy Kepes Prize in the Arts from MIT's Council for the Arts<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arts.mit.edu/camit/awards/kepes/|title=György Kepes Fellowship Prize|website=Arts at MIT}}</ref>
*Elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/alan-lightman|title=Alan Lightman|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|date=April 25, 2023 }}</ref>
*American Institute of Physics Andrew Gemant Award for linking science to the humanities in 1996<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aip.org/aip/awards/gemant-award/alan-p-lightman|title=Alan P. Lightman|date=January 15, 2015|website=www.aip.org}}</ref>
*Literary Light of the Boston Public Library in 1995<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.associatesbpl.org/events-and-programs/literary-lights/|title=Literary Lights &#124; Associates of the Boston Public Library|date=January 29, 2018 }}</ref>
*1990 Association of American Publishers’ Award for Origins as the best book of the year in physical science<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/lightman-alan-paige-1948|title=Lightman, Alan P(aige) 1948–|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref>