Honors
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1973)
- Mineralogical Society of America Award and Fellow (1981)
- American Geophysical Union Fellow (1988)
- Member, National Academy of Sciences (1993)
- President, Mineralogical Society of America (1992-1993)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Uppsala, Sweden (1995)
- Ross Coffin Purdy Award, American Ceramic Society Fellow (1995)
- Geochemical Society Fellow (1997)
- Alexander M. Cruickshank Award, Gordon Research Conference (2000)
- Hugh Huffman Memorial Award, The Calorimetry Conference (2000)
- Ceramic Educational Council Outstanding Educator Award (2000)
- American Ceramic Society Fellow (2001)
- American Ceramic Society, Best Paper Award of the Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division (2001)
- Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth Science (2002)
- Highly Cited Researchers Award, ISI Thomson Scientific (2002)
- Fellow, The Minerological Society (Great Britain) (2004)
- Urey Medal, European Association of Geochemistry (EAG) (2005)
- Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award, American Ceramic Society(ACerS)(2005)
- Rossini Award, International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics (IACT)(2006)
- Harry H. Hess Medalist, American Geophysical Union (AGU)(2006)
- Roebling Award, Mineralogical Society of America (2009)
- Best University Paper Award, DOE Geoscience Grantee Meeting (2009)
- Elected to the American Philosophical Society (2011)
- Cecil and Ida Green Senior Fellowship at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington (2012)
- Victor M. Goldschmidt Award, The Goldschmidt Conferences, the Geochemical Society (2016)
- W. David Kingery Award, The American Ceramic Society (2016)
- World Academy of Ceramics, Science Professional Member (2017)