This is the list of honors bestowed on Stanisław Lem.
1955: Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)Alina Doboszewska, "Kalendarium życia i twórczości Stanisława Lema", In: Jerzy Jarzębski, Wszechświat Lema, Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, . 2003, p. 322. 1957 – City of Kraków's Prize in Literature (Nagroda Literacka miasta Krakowa) for the totality of the literary work, with the special mention of Time Not LostEwa Balcerzak, Stanisław Lem, Warszaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1973, p. 176 1959: Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia RestitutaAlina Doboszewska, Kalendarium ... p. 323 1965 – Prize of the Minister of Culture and Art, 2nd Level (Nagroda Ministra Kultury i Sztuki II stopnia) 1970: Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia RestitutaAlina Doboszewska, Kalendarium ... p. 327 Prize of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for popularization of Polish culture abroad (nagroda Ministra Spraw Zagranicznych za popularyzację polskiej kultury za granicą) 1973 Literary Prize of the Minister of Culture and Art (nagroda literacka Ministra Kultury i Sztuki) and honorary member of Science Fiction Writers of America 1976 – State Prize 1st Level in the area of literature (Nagroda Państwowa I stopnia w dziedzinie literatury) 1979 Order of the Banner of Work of the 2nd class Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for his novel Katar. A minor planet, 3836 Lem, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979, is named after him. 1981 – Doctor honoris causa honorary degree from the Wrocław University of Technology 1986 – Austrian State Prize for European Literature 1987 Honorary title "Person of Merit for National Culture" ("Zasłużony dla kultury narodowej"), Polish Council of StateBożena Bednarek-Michalska, Bibliografia polska Stanisława Lema, 2006, (summary online) 1991 – Austrian literary 1994 – member of the Polish Academy of Learning 1996 – recipient of the Order of the White Eagle 1997 – honorary citizen of Kraków 1998 – Doctor honoris causa: University of Opole, Lviv University, Jagiellonian University 2001 – Golden Scepter () Award of the Polish Culture Foundation and BIG Bank Gdański for "the overtaking his time with the thought" ("za wyprzedzenie myślą swego czasu")""Złote Berło" dla Stanisława Lema", May 24, 2001 2003 – Doctor honoris causa from Bielefeld University 2005 - Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (on the list of the first recipients of the newly introduced medal) Medal Gloria Artis dla twórców i działaczy kultury, 2007 A street in Kraków is to be named in his honour. An exoplanet named Pirx was found orbiting the K-type main sequence star Solaris about 161 light-years (49 parsecs, or nearly km) from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. 2009 – A street in Wieliczka was named in his honour 2011 – An elaborate interactive Google Doodle inspired by The Cyberiad was created and published in his honor for the 60th anniversary of his first published book: The Astronauts. 2013 – two planetoids were named after Lem's literary characters: 343000 Ijontichy, after Ijon Tichy and 343444 Halluzinelle, after Tichy's holographic companion Analoge Halluzinelle from German TV series Ijon Tichy: Space Pilot
References "Stanisław Lem on Google’s homepage", an interview of Lem doodle creators, Marcin Wichary and Sophia Foster-Dimino
"Case Study: Building the Stanisław Lem Google doodle", by Marcin Wichary, one of the LEM doodle developers