* Prix de chimie du solide de la Société chimique de France (Solid State Chemistry award of the Chemical Society of France) (1983)
* Prix Paul Pascal de l’Académie des sciences (Paul Pascal award of the French Academy of Sciences) (1992)
* Prix de l’Institut français du pétrole de l’Académie des sciences (French Institute of Petroleum award of the French Academy of Sciences) (2000)
* Prix Gay-Lussac-Humboldt de la Fondation Alexander von Humboldt (Gay-Lussac-Humboldt award of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation) (2004)
* Prix C.N.R. RAO de l’Académie nationale des sciences de l’Inde ( C.N.R. RAO award of the Indian Academy of Sciences) (2005)
* Grand prix de la Société chimique du Japon (Japan chemical society award) (2008)
* Prix Catalan-Sabatier de la Société royale de chimie espagnole (Catalan-Sabatier award of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry) (2008)
* Prix ENI (ENI award) (2009) - for his work on the massive sequestration of CO2 and the explanation of this phenomenon. It develops the Mil-101, a solid which can store CO2.
* CNRS Gold medal (2010)
* Knight of the Legion of Honour
* Officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
* Officer of the National Order of Merit