Editing Frederick Seitz (section)

==Awards and recognition==
Seitz was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1946.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Frederick+Seitz&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-03-22 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> He was elected to the [[United States National Academy of Sciences]] in 1952, serving as its President from 1962 to 1969.<ref name=NAS /> He was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1962.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frederick Seitz |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/frederick-seitz |access-date=2023-03-22 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |date=9 February 2023 |language=en}}</ref> He received the [[Franklin Medal]] (1965). In 1973 he was awarded the [[National Medal of Science]] "for his contributions to the modern quantum theory of the solid state of matter."<ref name=NYTobit /> He also received the United States Department of Defense Distinguished Service Award; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Distinguished Public Service Award; and the Compton Award, the highest honor of the American Institute of Physics.<ref name=NYTobit /> In addition to Rockefeller University, 31 universities in the US and abroad awarded Seitz honorary degrees.<ref name=RU>Rockefeller University, 4 March 2008, [http://rlounsbery.org/news/frederick_seitz.asp Frederick Seitz – Lounsberry director and past president – dies at 96.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520042303/http://rlounsbery.org/news/frederick_seitz.asp |date=2011-05-20 }}</ref> He was also a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].<ref name=RU />

Seitz served on a range of boards of charitable institutions, including (as chair) [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]] (1976–1983<ref name=who />) and [[Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation]],<ref name=TDo /> and (as trustee) [[American Museum of Natural History]] (from 1975<ref name=who />) and [[Institute of International Education]].<ref name=TDo>Rockefeller University, [http://tobaccodocuments.org/lor/87697430-7434.html Biography of Frederick Seitz] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313025616/http://tobaccodocuments.org/lor/87697430-7434.html |date=2007-03-13 }}, November 1985</ref> He was also a board member of the [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]].<ref name=TDo /> Other appointments to a range of national and international agencies included serving on the [[Defense Science Board]] and serving as chair of the US delegation to the United Nations Committee on Science and Technology.<ref name=TDo /> He also served on the board of trustees of Science Service, now known as [[Society for Science & the Public]], from 1971 to 1974.

In 1981, Seitz became a founding member of the [[World Cultural Council]].<ref>{{cite web | title = About Us | publisher = [[World Cultural Council]] | url = http://www.consejoculturalmundial.org/about-us/ | access-date = November 8, 2016}}</ref>