Rita's Awards
Rita was...
A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences starting in 1966.
The elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1968, Making her only the tenth woman to ever be elected.
A member of the Pontifical Academy of Science starting in 1974.
Honored with the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1983.
A recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine along with Stanley Cohen in 1986.
Honored with the National Medal of Science, the highest American scientific honor in 1987.
Awarded with the Laurea Honoris Causa in medicine from the University of Trieste, Italy in 1991.
Nominated as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1999.
nominated to be a Senator-for-life in 2001.
A recipient of the degree Honoris Causa in Biomedical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin in 2006.
A 2008 recipient of the PhD Honoris Causa from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
A founding member of Citta della Scinza.
The first woman to receive the Max Weinstein award