(2016) Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE). Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) AIAA James A. Van Allen Space Environments Award (2020) Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Fellow of American Physical Society (APS). Member of International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) IAA Basic Science Award (2012) Recipient of NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (1988 & 1994). Recipient of NASA Distinguished Scientific Achievement Medal (1996). Recipient of NASA Silver Achievement Medal (Voyager Medal) Recipient of Innovators Award, NJ Inventors Hall of Fame Recipient of Antarctica Service Medal. Recipient of Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)'s William Nordberg Medal. Mount Lanzerotti (coordinates 74° 50’ S|71° 33’ W) is named for Prof. Lanzerotti and rises to about 1,550 m in Ellsworth Land in the northernmost region of the Sky-Hi Nunataks Range of Antarctica. Minor Planet 5504 Lanzerotti was named after him in 2004 Service activities Member NASA Physical Sciences Committee 1974-1980 Chair National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Solar and Space Physics 1981-1983 Chair NASA Space and Earth Science Advisory Committee 1984-1988 Chair NASEM Space Studies Board 1988-1994 Member NASA Advisory Council 1984-1994 Vice President COSPAR 1994-2002 Chair NASEM Decadal Study Solar and Space Physics 2001-2004 Chair AGU Committee on Public Affairs Founding Editor, AGU journal Space Weather 2003-2014 Chair Committee to Assess National Space Weather Program 2004-2006 Chair Governing Board, American Institute of Physics 2007-2015 Chair Board of Managers, AIP Publishing 2012-2015 Member Board of Trustees, University Space Research Association 2017- Member or Chair ~ 40 committees of NASEM (including examples below) 1979- Chair Committee on Antarctic Science and Policy 1992-1993 Chair NAE Committee on Membership 1998-1999 Chair Committee Assessing Options to Extend Life Hubble Telescope 2004-2005 Chair Committee Electronic Vehicle Control and Unintended Acceleration 2010-2012 Member Report Review Committee 2000-2006, 2011-2014 Chair Committee DoT Testing Electronically Controlled Pneumatic Brakes 2016-2017 National Science Board (Presidential Appointment, Senate Confirmed) 2004-2010 Chair Committee on Science and Engineering Indicators 2006-2010 Consultant 2010-2012 Harding Township NJ School Board (elected) 1982-1990 Vice President 1984-1990 Harding Township NJ committee (elected) 1993-2014 Mayor 2007-2009, 2013 References External links "National Science Foundation : Biography of Louis J. Lanzerotti" "NJIT : Department of Physics - Our People - Louis J Lanzerotti" 1938 births Living people University of Florida faculty University of California, Los Angeles faculty University of Illinois alumni Harvard University alumni New Jersey Institute of Technology Members of