text: *Tilden Lecturer of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 1981–82
  *Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990
  *International Prize for New Materials American Physical Society, 1992 (with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley)
  *Italgas Prize for Innovation in Chemistry, 1992
  *Royal Society of Chemistry Longstaff Medal, 1993
  *Hewlett Packard Europhysics Prize, 1994 (with Wolfgang Kraetschmer, Don Huffman and Richard Smalley)
  *Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1996 (shared with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley)
  *Carbon Medal, American Carbon Society Medal for Achievement in Carbon Science, 1997 (shared with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley)
  *Blackett Lectureship (Royal Society), 1999
  *Faraday Award and Lecture (Royal Society), 2001
  *Dalton Medal (Manchester Lit and Phil), 1998
  *Erasmus Medal of Academia Europaea, 2002
  *Copley Medal of the Royal Society, 2002
  *Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, 2002
  *Order of Cherubini (Torino), 2005
  *Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007
  *Kavli Lecturer, 2007
  * National Historic Chemical Landmark, American Chemical Society, 2010.
  * Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award, Division of History of Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2015
  Kroto was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1996 New Year Honours list.
  The University of Sheffield North Campus contains two buildings named after Kroto: The Kroto Innovation Centre and the Kroto Research Institute.