text: Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow, along with Kai Siegbahn. The Nobel Foundation awarded Bloembergen and Schawlow "for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy".
  * Corresponding member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, 1956
  * Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1955 
  * Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1956
  * Guggenheim Fellow, 1957
  * Oliver Buckley Prize, American Physical Society, 1958
  * IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, Institute of Radio Engineers, 1959
  * Member, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 1960
  * Stuart Ballantine Medal, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1961
  * National Medal of Science, President of the United States of America, 1974
  * Lorentz Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, 1978
  * Foreign Honorary Member, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 1978
  * [http://www.osa.org/aboutosa/awards/osaawards/awardsdesc/ivesquinn/ Frederic Ives Medal], Optical Society of America, 1979
  * Von Humboldt Senior Scientist, 1980
  * Associé Étranger, Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1981
  * Member, American Philosophical Society, 1982
  * Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 1983
  * Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1983
  * Member Emeritus, United States National Academy of Engineering, 1984
  * Bijvoet Medal of the Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research of Utrecht University, 2001