William E. Thornton

William Edgar Thornton (M.D.)

Special honors

• Recipient of the Air Force Legion of Merit (1956)
• the NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1972)
• the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1974)
• the American Astronautical Society?s Melbourne W. Boynton Award for 1975 (1977)
• two NASA Space Flight Medals (1983, 1985)
• the University of North Carolina Distinguished Alumni Award (1983)
• the Aerospace Medical Association Randy Lovelace Award (1984)
• the AIAA Jeffries Medical Research Award (1985)
• the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Kern Award (1986)
• the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Award (1988).