PhD in Physics, University of Chicago
- Professor, MIT
- Director, MIT Laboratory for the Nuclear Science (until 1983)
- Head, MIT Department of Physics (until 1988)
| 1977 | Member, Board of the University Research Association, U.S.A. (until 1983) Vice President, Board of the University Research Association, U.S.A. (until 1980) |
| 1997 | Member of KEK Council, Japan (until 2003) |
| 1999 | President, American Physical Society |
| 2001 | Chair, Council of Scientific Society Presidents, U.S.A. |
| 2005 | Member, Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Promotion Corporation (until October 2011) |
| September 2009 | Establishing Member of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation (until October 2011) |
| November 2011 | Member, Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation (-present) |
| 1990 | Nobel Prize in Physics |



