text: *1960–61 – Fulbright–Smith–Mundt Fellowship
  *1962–63 – Harrison Fellowship at University of Pennsylvania
  *1986 – Guggenheim Fellowship
  *2000 – Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship
  *2009 – Invited Lectureship, 4th Mitsui International Catalysis Symposium (MICS-4), Kisarazu, Japan
  *2010 – Order of Culture
  *2010 – Person of Cultural Merit
  *2011 – Sagamore of the Wabash
  *2011 – Order of the Griffin, Purdue University
  *2011 – Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  *2011 – Honorary doctor of science, University of Pennsylvania.
  *2012 – Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
  *2014 – Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences