text: *1927 – elected International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  *1930 – Rumford Medal for work relating to specific heats and X-ray spectroscopy
  *1936 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry ([http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1936/index.html entry at nobelprize.org]) "for his contributions to the study of molecular structure," primarily referring to his work on dipole moments and X-ray diffraction
  *1936 – elected member of the American Philosophical Society
  *1937 – Franklin Medal from The Franklin Institute
  *1947 – elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
  *1963 – Priestley Medal
  *1965 – National Medal of Science
  *1982 – Alpha Chi Sigma Hall of Fame