text: * 1956 – Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  * 1970 – Medal for Achievement in Physics from the Canadian Association of Physicists
  * 1979 – Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London
  * 1980 – International meeting on molecular spectroscopy sponsored in June in honour of A. E. Douglas by the NRC
  * 1981 – Henry Marshall Tory Medal