text: These include:
  * 1960Awarded DSc and a personal readership by the University of Cambridge
  * Awarded DSc honoris causa by the University of Louvain, Belgium
  * Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences; in 1995, awarded by it its Grand Cross of the Order of Merit in Science
  * From 1981President of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
  * 1996Awarded the Becquerel Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry