*1996 – A. R. Day Award (ACS Philadelphia Section award)
*1997 – Chemical Society of Japan Award
*1998 – Herbert N. McCoy Award
*1998 – American Chemical Society Award for Organometallic Chemistry
*1998–2000 – Alexander von Humboldt Senior Researcher Award
*2003 – Sigma Xi Award, Purdue University
*2007 – Yamada–Koga Prize
*2007 – Gold Medal of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
*2010 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*2010 – ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
*2015 – Fray International Sustainability Award, SIPS 2015