Awards:
- 1949 Ramsay Medal, University College London
- 1953 Harrison Memorial Medal of the Chemical Society
- 1953 Elected Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry
- 1953-54 Commonwealth Fund Fellow, Brown University, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- 1960 Elected Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada
- 1965 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- 1966 Noranda Award of the Chemical Institute of Canada for Inorganic Chemistry
- 1967 Canadian Centennial Medal
- 1971 American Chemical Society North-Eastern Region Award for Physical chemistry
- 1971 American Chemical Society "Tour Speaker of the Year" Award
- 1972 Manufacturing Chemists Association College Chemistry Teacher Award
- 1973 American Chemical Society Award for Distinguished Service to the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry
- 1976 Union Carbide Award of the Chemical Institute of Canada for Chemical Education
- 1977 Silver Jubilee Medal
- 1977 The Chemical Institute of Canada Medal
- 1977 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, London
- 1978 Nyholm Lectureship of the Chemical Society, London
- 1981 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry
- 1983 Henry Marshall Tory Medal of the Royal Society of Canada
- 1983 Winner of the McMaster Students Union Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 1987 Izaak Walter Killam Memorial Prize of the Canada Council for Pure Science
- 1988 Doctor of Laws (honoris causa), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
- 1988 Doctor of Laws (honoris causa), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
- 1989 Muetterties Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, California
- 1991 Doctor (honoris causa), University of Montpellier, France
- 1993 Doctor of Science (honoris causa), McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- 1993 Honorary Fellowship of the Chemical Institute of Canada