text: * Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1970)
  * Fellow of the Royal Society (1976), Vice-President 1987-1988
  * Chugaev Medal of the Kurnakov Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences) (1978)
  * Royal Society of Chemistry’s Ludwig Mond Award (1983)
  * American Chemical Society’s award in Inorganic Chemistry (1985)
  * Royal Society of Chemistry’s Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship (1988)
  * Royal Society's Davy Medal (1989)
  * Royal Society of Chemistry’s Longstaff Prize (1990)
  * Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1990)