Association Chrysler Design Award for Innovation in Design, 1993 Honorary Member designation, American Meteorological Society, 1995 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Ralph Coats Roe Medal, November 1998 Howard Hughes Memorial Award, Aero Club of Southern California, January 1999 Calstart's 1998 Blue Sky Merit Award, February 1999 1999 National Convention of the Soaring Society of America, dedicated to Paul MacCready, February 1999 Special Achievement Award, Design News, March 1999 Included in Time magazine's "The Century's Greatest Minds" (March 29, 1999) series "on the 100 most influential people of the century" Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Aviation Week Laureate Award, April 1999 Commemorated in Palau stamp, 1 of 16 "Environmental Heroes of the 20th Century", January 2000 Institute for the Advancement of Engineering William B. Johnson Memorial Award, February 2000 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, National Design Award – Product Design, November 2000 Hoyt Clarke Hottel Award, American Solar Energy Society, April 24, 2001 ("lifetime achievement as an inventor, specifically for inventing the world's first two solar-powered aircraft") 2001 World Technology Award for Energy, England, July 2001 Prince Alvaro de Orleans Borbon Fund, First Annual Award, October 2001, from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, Switzerland The 2002 Walker Prize, Museum of Science, Boston, March 2002 International von Karman Wings Award, Aerospace Historical Society, May 2002 Member of the American Philosophical Society, 2002 The 9th Annual Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy and Employment, 2003 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, 2003 Honorary Doctorate, Washington & Jefferson College, May 2007 Included in the Pantheon of Skeptics of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (Formerly Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal)(April 2011) Included in Flying magazine's list of the "51 Heroes of Aviation" (July 24, 2013) Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2015 Other interests MacCready was a secular humanist, which he defined as someone who "does not believe in God, and doesn't steal." He was a laureate of the International Academy of Humanism. He was involved with scientific skepticism from its early days, being a member of the board of directors of the Southern California Skeptics in 1985. Skeptic and author Michael Shermer credits MacCready with his introduction to the skeptical movement. MacCready was admitted posthumously to the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's Pantheon of Skeptics in 2011. Since 2013, MacCready has been listed on the Advisory Council of the National Center for Science Education. MacCready was also a passionate