text: * 2004 – Pearse Prize, Royal Microscopical Society
  * 2005 – Emile Chamot Award
  * 2006 – Asahi Prize
  * 2008 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  * 2008 – Order of Culture
  * 2008 – Person of Cultural Merit
  * 2012 – Golden Goose Award
  * 2013 – Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
  * 2018 – Junior third rank (posthumous)