Positions, Awards and Honors
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1954
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1960.
- Member of United States National Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Faculty Advisory Board of MIT-Harvard Research Journal
- Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, (1976)
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry, (1976)
Five books and published symposia are dedicated to Lipscomb.
A complete list of Lipscomb's awards and honors is in his Curriculum Vitae.
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