text: * Edward Harrison Memorial Prize (1932)
  * Tilden Lecture to the Chemical Society (1942)
  * Fellow of the Royal Society (1946)
  * Liversidge Award (1954)
  * Alfred Stock Memorial Prize and medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (1954)
  * Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1958)
  * Davy Medal of the Royal Society (1962)
  * Henri Moissan prize for fluorine chemistry, Germany (1991)
  * Lavoisier Medal of the Société Chimique de France (French Chemical Society)