National Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago (1959-1962)

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (1966-67)

First Prize, “The Best-Lecturer” Awards, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bar-Ilan University (1978)

Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University (1985, 1987, 2001, 2004, 2005)

Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University (2006)

Dr. rer. nat. h.c. (Doctor rerum naturalium honoris causa), Universität Osnabrück, Germany (2006)
Citation:  "On the background of distinguished lifelong scientific achievements, Marshall Luban has substantially promoted the                     field of Molecular Magnetism by his own work as well as by
initiating international cooperations."