In 1931, together with Henri Devaux, Pockels received the Laura R. Leonard Prize from the . In the following year, the Braunschweig University of Technology granted her an honorary doctorate, being the first woman to receive such an award.
Using an improved version of this slide trough, American chemist Irving Langmuir made additional discoveries on the properties of surface molecules, which earned him a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1932. Pockels' device is a direct antecedent of the Langmuir–Blodgett trough, developed later by Langmuir and physicist Katharine Blodgett.
Since 1993, the Technical University Braunschweig has awarded the Agnes Pockels Medal to people who have advanced the Technical University Braunschweig, emphasizing those who have promoted teaching and research especially women.
The Agnes Pockels Laboratory was established at the Technical University Braunschweig in 2002. Its purpose is to foster chemical education, aid chemistry teachers, and encourage young children in the pursuit of the natural sciences. It emphasizes children under the age of 10, especially girls. In this laboratory, children experience learning-by-doing, much like a craft, without theoretical knowledge or advanced instrumentation.
Lord Rayleigh kept the correspondence he received from Pockels and her brother Friedrich Pockels. Pockels maintained a diary. These documents and photographs of the Pockels family were retained in the library of the Royal Society of Chemistry at Burlington House. On the occasion of Pockels' 70th birthday in 1932, German colloid chemist Wolfgang Ostwald published a biography of Pockels. The Ostwald article includes a list of her publication and a summary of several of them. It also includes autobiographical passages from Pockels. Her sister-in-law Elisabeth (the wife of Friedrich Pockels) also published a biography of Pockels, emphasizing her personal life.