His numerous awards include: 
*1972: Awarded the Corday-Morgan medal in Inorganic Chemistry by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
*1977: Medal in Transition Metal Chemistry from the RSC
*1982: Tilden Prize and Lectureship, RSC
*1984: American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry 
*1985: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) 
*1985: Medal in Organometallic Chemistry, RSC
*1988: Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lecturership, RSC
*1995: Awarded the Davy Medal by the Royal Society
*1997: Medal in Organometallic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society 
*1992: From the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, the Karl-Ziegler Prize 
*2000: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Medal and Prize, RSC
* Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
*2015: From the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, the European Prize for Organometallic Chemistry