* Edward Harrison Memorial Prize (1932)
* Tilden Lecture to the Chemical Society (1942)
* Fellow of the Royal Society (1946)
* Liversidge Award (1954)
* Alfred Stock Memorial Prize and medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (1954)
* Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1958)
* Davy Medal of the Royal Society (1962)
* Henri Moissan prize for fluorine chemistry, Germany (1991)
* Lavoisier Medal of the Société Chimique de France (French Chemical Society)