1994
Awarded Medal of Merit of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris for work in the history of biology
1995
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2004
Presidential Award of the University of Notre Dame for Service
2009
Endowed Scholarship, Phillip R. Sloan Award, given annually to the graduate student in the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science “who is thought to embody the values of scholarship and service exemplified by one of the founders of our Program.”
2019
Lifetime Achievement Award, Marquis Who’s Who, with extensive biographical entry.