*Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1973)
*Mineralogical Society of America Award and Fellow (1981)
*American Geophysical Union Fellow (1988)
*Member, National Academy of Sciences (1993)
*President, Mineralogical Society of America (1992–1993)
*Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden (1995)
*Ross Coffin Purdy Award, American Ceramic Society Fellow (1995)
*Geochemical Society Fellow (1997)
*Alexander M. Cruickshank Award, Gordon Research Conference (2000)
*Hugh Huffman Memorial Award, The Calorimetry Conference (2000)
*Ceramic Educational Council Outstanding Educator Award (2000)
*American Ceramic Society Fellow (2001)
*American Ceramic Society, Best Paper Award of the Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division (2001)
*Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth Science (2002)
*Highly Cited Researchers Award, ISI Thomson Scientific (2002)
*Fellow, The Mineralogical Society (Great Britain) (2004)
*Urey Medal, European Association of Geochemistry (EAG) (2005)
*Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award, American Ceramic Society (ACerS)(2005)
*Rossini Award, International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics (IACT)(2006)
*Harry H. Hess Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)(2006)
*Roebling Medal, Mineralogical Society of America (2009)