HONORS

U.S. Navy Distinguished Service Award (Navy's highest honor awarded to civilians) 1945
Citation, Seismological Society of America 1947
Citation, Admiral, Bureau of Ordnance 1947
Cosmos club membership 1957
Order of Cyrille and Methodius, First Class, Bulgarian Academy of Science, (Bulgaria's highest honor awarded to a scientist) 1970
Iowa Inventors Hall of Fame
Plaque, Iowa State Univ. Physics Building 1974
Honorary Membership, Society for Computer Medicine 1974
Doctor of Science, University of Florida 1974
Doctor of Science, Moravian College 1981
Distinguished Achievement Citation,
Iowa State Univ. Alumni Assoc. 1983
Doctor of Science, Western Maryland College
May-June 1985 -John Atanasoff's second visit to Bulgaria. Awarded with People's Republic of Bulgaria Medal, Ist class
1985 - Then Vice-President George W. Bush honoured John Atanasoff with the Holley medal - the highest prize of the US Society of Engineers.
1986 - Coors American Ingenuity Award, founded by Adolph Coors Company, Colorado State. For the first time it is given to John Atanasoff.
1986 - Atanasoff scholarship for excellent students in computer science, founded by Adolph Coors Company.
1987 - D.Sc. at the State University in Wisconsin.
1988 - "Atanasoff" is the asteroid (one of the little planets near Mars), discovered and researched by Bulgarians at the National Astronomic Observatory in Rozhen. That logo is registered by the Special Commission for naming the new discovered astronomic bodies at the International Astronomic Union and the International Planet Center in Cambridge (Great Britain) suggested by DSc Vladimir Shkodrov, MSc Violetta Ivanova and Angelina Georgieva (Bulgaria).
1989 - Information Resource Management Hall of Fame, Washington, DC
1990 - National Medal of Science and Technology for 1990, presented by President George Bush in the White House. This is the most important prize received by Atanasoff.