1975

Karl-Winnacker Award

1976

Prize for Chemistry by the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen

1996

ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry

2001

Wilhelm Klemm Award for Inorganic Chemistry

1982

Wilsmore Fellowship at the University of Melbourne

1993

Eduard-Zintl-Lecture, Darmstadt

1999

J.J. Musher Lecture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2000

Wilhelm-Manchot Research Professorship at the Technical University Munich, Germany

2001

A.D. Little Lecture, MIT, Cambridge, USA

2002

E. L. Muetterties Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, USA

2002

R. Siedle Lecture, Indiana University

2003

J. and E. Lee Memorial Lecture, University of Chicago

2004

John C. Bailar Medal and Lecture, University of Illinois at Chicago

2005

E. Wiberg Lecture, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

2007

Franz and Elisabeth Roessler Lecture, Cornell University

2010

Neil Bartlett Memorial Lecture, University of California, Berkeley

2010

Arduengo Lecture, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa