* 1967: Marlow Medal by the Faraday Society of England
* 1968: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science
* 2000: Centenary Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London
* 2000: Hughes Medal by the Royal Society
* 2004: India Science Award
* 2005: Dan David Prize from Tel Aviv University shared with George Whitesides and Robert Langer.
* 2008: Abdus Salam Medal by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
* 2009: Royal Medal by the Royal Society
* 2010: August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann Medal by the German Chemical Society
* 2017: The Von Hippel Award by the Materials Research Society
* 2021: International ENI award 2020 for research in renewable energy sources and energy storage, also called the Energy Frontier award