*Theodor Körner Prize for Science and Art in Austria, 1970
*Ernst Späth Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1976
*Sandoz Prize, 1977
*Election to corresponding member of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1989
*Election to corresponding member of the Mathematical and Natural Sciences Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1992
*Upper Austrian Prize for Science, 1993
*Election to full member of the Mathematical and Natural Sciences Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1997 
*Josef Loschmidt Medal of the Austrian Chemical Society, 1998
*Scientific award of the Rudolf Trauner Stiftung, 2003
*Silver medal of the government of Upper Austria, 2009