In 2013, he was awarded the
United States Department of Energy's
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for his research in
Condensed Matter and
Materials Science: "For the discovery and study of new materials, especially those based on
Plutonium, advancing understanding of unconventional magnetic and superconducting states in strongly correlated f-electron condensed matter systems." He was honored for his discovery and study of new materials, especially those based on
Plutonium, that advance understanding of novel magnetic and superconducting states in strongly correlated f-electron condensed matter systems.{{cite journal |title=Superconductivity in plutonium compounds | last=Sarrao|first=J.L. ... |date=2015 |journal=Physica C: Superconductivity and Its Applications | volume= 514 == References ==