The Ryoji Noyori Prize is named in his honour. In 2000 Noyori became Honorary Doctor at the University of Rennes 1, where he taught in 1995, and in 2005, he became Honorary Doctor at Technical University of Munich and RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Noyori was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2005. and an Honorary Doctorate degree from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (formerly known as UDCT) on the 23rd day of February 2018.
He has also been awarded:
*1978 – Matsunaga prize
*1982 – Chu-Nichi Culture Award
*1985 – The Chemical Society of Japan Award
*1991 – John G. Kirkwood Award, American Chemical Society and Yale University
*1992 – Asahi Prize
*1993 – Tetrahedron Prize
*1995 – Japan Academy Prize (academics)
*1997 – Arthur C. Cope Award
*1997 – Chirality Medal
*1999 – King Faisal International Prize
*2001 – Wolf Prize in Chemistry
*2001 – Nobel Prize for Chemistry
*2009 – Lomonosov Gold Medal