Robert C. Merton received the 2009 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award. The award honors an MIT graduate for noteworthy achievements in the humanities, arts or social sciences.

Fixed Income Analysts Society. 2007 Recipient of the FIASI Hall of Fame Award. Website: https://www.fiasi.org/2018-hall-of-fame/815-2018-hall-of-fame-videos#mcquown

An article published in the New Yorker discussing Jimmy Wales and the founding of Wikipedia, including Wale's first personally written entry on the life and work of Robert C. Merton.