Source:
* Kern Prize of the ETH Zurich (1949)
* Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society (1956)
* Ruzicka Prize of the ETH Zurich (1958)
* Ernest Guenther Award (1966)
* Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art (1974)
* Welch Award (1974)
* Kirkwood Medal, Yale University (1976)
* Davy Medal (1978)
* Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry (1981)
* Arthur C. Cope Award (1984) 
* Wolf Prize in Chemistry of the Wolf Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel (1986)
* Cothenius Medal (1991)
* Nakanishi Prize (1998)
* Oparin Medal (2002)
* Frank H. Westheimer Medal (Harvard University (2004)
* F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research of the American Chemical Society (2004)
* Paul Karrer Gold Medal (University of Zurich, 2008)
* Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2008)