text: *Goldschmidt was created a Knight of the Order of St. Olav in 1929.
  *While at the Macaulay Institute, Goldschmidt was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, given an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) by the University of Aberdeen and awarded the Wollaston Medal, the highest honor of the Geological Society of London.
  *The mountain ridge Goldschmidtfjella in Oscar II Land at Spitsbergen is named after him.
  *The mineral goldschmidtite (KNbO) was named in his honour (IMA2018-034).
  *The V. M. Goldschmidt Medal is awarded annually by  The Geochemical Society