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  * Kern Prize of the ETH Zurich (1949)
  * Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society (1956)
  * Ruzicka Prize of the ETH Zurich (1958)
  * Ernest Guenther Award (1966)
  * Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art (1974)
  * Welch Award (1974)
  * Kirkwood Medal, Yale University (1976)
  * Davy Medal (1978)
  * Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry (1981)
  * Arthur C. Cope Award (1984) 
  * Wolf Prize in Chemistry of the Wolf Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel (1986)
  * Cothenius Medal (1991)
  * Nakanishi Prize (1998)
  * Oparin Medal (2002)
  * Frank H. Westheimer Medal (Harvard University (2004)
  * F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research of the American Chemical Society (2004)
  * Paul Karrer Gold Medal (University of Zurich, 2008)
  * Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2008)