*1960–61 – Fulbright–Smith–Mundt Fellowship
*1962–63 – Harrison Fellowship at University of Pennsylvania
*1986 – Guggenheim Fellowship
*2000 – Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship
*2009 – Invited Lectureship, 4th Mitsui International Catalysis Symposium (MICS-4), Kisarazu, Japan
*2010 – Order of Culture
*2010 – Person of Cultural Merit
*2011 – Sagamore of the Wabash
*2011 – Order of the Griffin, Purdue University
*2011 – Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
*2011 – Honorary doctor of science, University of Pennsylvania.
*2012 – Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
*2014 – Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences