text: * Phi Beta Kappa
  * Sigma Xi
  * 1950 The Chittenden Award given to the top B.S. graduate in the Yale class of 1950
  *1971 The first Northeast ACS Award for Photochemistry
  *1976 The ACS James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry
  *1980 The Halpern Award of the New York Academy of Sciences
  *1980 Election to the National Academy of Sciences
  *1986 Recipient of the American Institute of Chemists Chemical Pioneer Award
  *1988 A Senior Alexander von Humboldt Award
  *1990 Hilldale Award in the Physical Sciences from the University of Wisconsin
  * 1991 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the ACS
  * 2006 IUPAC Porter Medal for Photochemical Research