text: *Theodor Körner Prize for Science and Art in Austria, 1970
  *Ernst Späth Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1976
  *Sandoz Prize, 1977
  *Election to corresponding member of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1989
  *Election to corresponding member of the Mathematical and Natural Sciences Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1992
  *Upper Austrian Prize for Science, 1993
  *Election to full member of the Mathematical and Natural Sciences Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1997 
  *Josef Loschmidt Medal of the Austrian Chemical Society, 1998
  *Scientific award of the Rudolf Trauner Stiftung, 2003
  *Silver medal of the government of Upper Austria, 2009