The society acknowledges individual achievement with prizes and awards, including:
* Raymond Berr Prize
:* 1954: Charles Glacet
:* 1955: Raymond Jean Calas
:* 1958: Guy Ourisson
:* 1961: Marc Julia
:* 1965: Robert Collongues
:* 1967: Jean-Pierre Ebel
:* 1970: Pierre Potier
:* 1972: Jean Flahaut
:* 1976: Henri B. Kagan
:* 1978: Jean-Marie Lehn
:* 1979: J. P. Kovalevsky
:* 1981: Bernard Trémillon
:* 1985: Philippe Sautet
:* 1988: François Mathey
:* 1993: Pierre Sigwalt
* Lavoisier Medal of the Société Chimique de France is awarded to a person or institution in order to distinguish the work or actions which have enhanced the perceived value of chemistry in society.
:* 1904: James Dewar
:* 1906: William Perkin
:* 1912: Victor Grignard
:* 1922: Theodore William Richards
:* 1935: Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
:* 1948: Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd
:* 1949: Rudolf Signer
:* 1954: Iraj Lalezari
:* 1955: Karl Ziegler
:* 1968: Robert Burns Woodward
:* 1983: Paul B. Weisz
:* 1992: Marc Julia and Raymond Wey
:* 1993: William M. Hess, Armand Lattes, Ernest Maréchal, Eugène Papirer and L.-A. Plaquette
:* 1994: David A. Evans; Marco Aurelio de Paoli; Rudolph Marcus; Steven Wolff
:* 1995: Derek Barton; Rudolf Hoppe
:* 1997: Jean-Marie Lehn
:* 1998: Jean-Baptiste Donnet
:* 1999: Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)
:* 2000: F. Albert Cotton
:* 2004: Fred McLafferty
:* 2013: Gérard Férey
:* 2015: Jacques Livage, Henri B. Kagan
:* 2018: Christian Amatore
:* 2023: Jean-Marie Tarascon