text: * 2011 – Received the Order of Merit (First Degree) of the Federal Republic of Germany from Bundespräsident Christian Wulff
  * 2010 – Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  * 2010 – American Chemical Society Fredric Stanely Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry
  * 2010 – Alexander von Humboldt – Lise Meitner Senior Research Award 
  * 2009 – Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  * 2008 – Honorary Member, Mexican Academy of Sciences
  * 2007 – Wacker Silicone Award
  * 2006 – Honorary Doctorate of Science from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany 
  * 2002 – C. A Coulson Lecturer, University of Georgia, Athens, USA 
  * 2002 – The Israel Chemical Society Prize 
  * 1997 – Distinguished Teacher Award by the Technion Student Association
  * 1996 – Granted a Minerva Center in Computational Quantum Chemistry 
  * 1994–1999 – Alexander von Humboldt – Lise Meitner Senior Research Award 
  * 1993 – Distinguished Teacher Award by the Technion Student Association 
  * 1993 – Senior Scientist Exchange Fellow, Israel-Italy National Council for Research and Development
  * 1991, 1993 – Henri Gutwirth Prize for Excellence in Research by the Technion
  * 1991, 1999, 2010 – Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Senior Visiting Professor Award 
  * 1988 – Technion Award for Academic Excellence, Technion (The New England Prize) 
  * 1986 – Distinguished Teacher Award by the Technion Student Association 
  * 1986 – Louis Klein Visiting Professorship in Australian Universities
  * 1985, 1991 – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Visiting Professor 
  * 1979 – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellowship 
  * 1977–1978 – Bat-Sheba de Rothschild Fellow 
  * 1974 – Yashinski Prize for Distinguished Ph.D. Thesis
  * 1971 – Prize for Distinguished Student of the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Hebrew University
  * 1965–1967 – Annual Prize for Distinction in Chemistry Studies, Hebrew University