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==Awards and honors== Gell-Mann won numerous awards and honours including the following: {{Div col|colwidth=35em}} * 1959 β [[Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm|title=1959 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Recipient|website=American Physical Society|access-date=May 25, 2019|quote=For his contributions to field theory and to the theory of elementary particles.|archive-date=February 3, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203124059/https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm|url-status=live}}</ref> * 1960 β Elected member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]]<ref>[http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/55410.html Gell-Mann listing at member-directory of nasonline.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324140321/http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/55410.html |date=March 24, 2019 }} Retrieved February 15, 2017</ref> * 1962 β [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]]'s Golden Plate Award <ref>{{Cite news|title=Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D. Biography and Interview|newspaper=Academy of Achievement|publisher=[[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://www.achievement.org/achiever/murray-gell-mann-ph-d/#interview|access-date=April 17, 2019|archive-date=February 16, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216064450/https://achievement.org/achiever/murray-gell-mann-ph-d/#interview|url-status=live}}</ref> * 1964 β Elected member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/murray-gell-mann|title=Murray Gell-Mann|website=amacad.org|date=February 9, 2023|access-date=June 6, 2020|archive-date=November 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103021135/https://www.amacad.org/person/murray-gell-mann|url-status=live}}</ref> * 1966 β [[Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://science.energy.gov/lawrence/award-laureates/1960s/gell-mann/|title=Murray Gell-Mann 1966|date=May 3, 2016|website=US Department of Energy, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522023038/https://science.energy.gov/lawrence/award-laureates/1960s/gell-mann/|archive-date=May 22, 2017|access-date=May 25, 2019|quote=For his contributions of the highest significance to the theory of elementary and theoretical work in the field of physics.}}</ref> * 1967 β [[Franklin Medal]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fi.edu/laureates/murray-gell-mann |title=Murray Gell-Mann, Physics (1967) |website=The Franklin Institute |access-date=May 25, 2019 |date=January 15, 2014 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223024441/https://www.fi.edu/laureates/murray-gell-mann |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 1968 β [[National Academy of Sciences]] β [[John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science|John J. Carty Award]]<ref name=Carty>{{Cite web |title=John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science |url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_carty |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=March 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229180532/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_carty |archive-date=December 29, 2010 }}</ref> * 1969 β [[Research Corporation]] Award <ref name="nobelprize"/> * 1969 β [[Nobel Prize]] in Physics <ref name="nobelprize">{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1969/gell-mann/biographical/ |title=Murray Gell-Mann β Biographical |website=The Nobel Prize |access-date=May 25, 2019 |archive-date=December 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231209051354/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1969/gell-mann/biographical/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1978 β Elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1978|Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS)]]<ref name=formemrs /> * 1988 β [[United Nations Environment Programme]] Roll of Honor for Environmental Achievement (The [[Global 500 Roll of Honour|Global 500]]) <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.global500.org/index.php/thelaureates/online-directory/item/621-murray-gell-mann |title=Murray Gell-Mann |website=Global 500 Environmental Forum |access-date=May 25, 2019 |archive-date=May 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525213759/https://www.global500.org/index.php/thelaureates/online-directory/item/621-murray-gell-mann |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 1993 β Elected member of [[The American Philosophical Society]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Murray+Gell-Mann&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|title=APS Member History|access-date=March 15, 2022|archive-date=March 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315152706/https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Murray+Gell-Mann&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2005 β [[Albert Einstein Medal]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.einstein-bern.ch/en/einstein-society|title=Albert Einstein Medal|website=Einstein Society {{!}} Einsteinhaus Bern|access-date=May 25, 2019|archive-date=January 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190124033213/http://einstein-bern.ch/en/einstein-society|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2005 β [[American Humanist Association]] β Humanist of the Year <ref name=Humanist>{{cite web |title=The Humanist of the Year |url=https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/humanist-of-the-year-awards/ |publisher=American Humanist Association |access-date=May 25, 2019 |archive-date=June 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607163248/https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/humanist-of-the-year-awards/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * 2014 β Helmholtz-Medal of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities <ref>[http://www.bbaw.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilungen/portal_factory/PDFs/bbaw-10-2014 Press Release, 10β2014, from Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525212153/http://www.bbaw.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilungen/portal_factory/PDFs/bbaw-10-2014 |date=May 25, 2019 }} Retrieved February 15, 2017</ref> {{Div col end}} Universities that gave Gell-Mann [[honorary doctorate]]s include [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]], [[Columbia University|Columbia]], the [[University of Chicago]], [[Oxford University|Oxford]] and [[Yale]].<ref name="nobelprize"/>
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