text: He was a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (1940), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1942), the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund (1943) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, from which he received the Great Gold Medal in 1969. In 1960 he also became a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. A room in Uppsala University's Ångstrom Laboratory is named after him. In 1968 he received the Oscar Carlson Medal and in 1997 the Gunnar Starck Medal from the Swedish Chemical Society. From 1965 to 1976 he was a member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry (and chairman in 1976).