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1987 – The Kennedy Prize of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2002 – Guggenheim Fellowship
2004 – Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the Faculty of Physics & Einstein Center for Theoretical Physics of the Weizmann Institute of Science
2006/7 – John Bahcall Lecturer at the Tel Aviv University
2006 – Salpeter Lectureship at Cornell University
2012 – Time magazine's 25 most influential people in space.
2012 – Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2012 – Galileo Galilei Chair (Cattedra Galileiana) Award of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
2013 – Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award from the American Astronomical Society, for How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form? (2010)
2014 – Member of the Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2015 – Elected Fellow of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) SETI Permanent Committee
2015 – Elected Member of the American Physical Society (APS)
2020 – Appointed to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

== See also ==
UFO conspiracy theories
CNEOS 2014-01-08

== Selected publications ==
Abraham Loeb, Adam Hibberd, and Adam Crowl (2025). "Intercepting 3I/ATLAS at Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Juno spacecraft". arXiv.

== References ==

== External links ==

Avi Loeb's home page
Loeb's recent preprints
Loeb's published papers
Search for Interstellar Monuments (Avi Loeb; Scientific American; September 2021).
Kloor, Keith (January 27, 2023). "Why is a Harvard astrophysicist working with UFO buffs?". www.science.org. Retrieved June 17, 2023.