 John Lawrence received the Enrico Fermi Award in 1983.He received honorary degrees from the University of South Dakota, University of Bordeaux and from the Catholic University of America.He was awarded the Caldwell Medal of the American Roentgen Ray Society; the MacKenzie Davidson Medal of the British Institute of Radiology ; a medal from Pope Pius XII; the Silver Medal of the University of Bordeaux; the Silver Cross of the Greek Royal Order of the Phoenix and the Pasteur Medal of the Pasteur Institute of Paris.