Lyman Spitzer, Jr. was honored during his lifetime with the Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for 1973. Posthumous honors include naming the Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF) after him. Asteroid (2160) Spitzer, previously designated 1956 RL, was discovered on September 7, 1956 at Brooklyn by Indiana University staff. Other provisional designations had been 1956 SJ, 1966 RN, 1971 UV1, and 1976 SX2.

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• Lyman Spitzer, Jr., 1973 Bruce Medalist
• HubbleSite Lyman Spitzer info

• Lyman Spitzer, Jr., 1914-1997. From Physics Today, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 123-124 (October 1997)
• Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (1914-1997), by George B. Field. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 110, Issue 745, p. 215-222 (March 1998)