text: *1958 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 1958
  *1982 ACS Herty Medal
  *1985 elected an honorary member of the Serbian Chemical Society
  *1989 Arthur C. Cope Award
  *1989 James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (ACS)
  *1991 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
  *1994 Chemical Pioneer Award from the American Institute of Chemists
  *1996 ACS Award of Computers in Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Research
  *1996 The Schrödinger Medal of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists
  *2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute.
  Away from chemistry, Lou Allinger was “an extraordinarily talented and well-respected; New
  Orleans jazz’ musician — pianist and tenor banjo player — who performed at “jazz dives” for more than six decades. He appeared in two albums with the band Sundown Stompers”. He retired from playing music in 2008.
  Allinger was a keen philatelist with a very large worldwide collection of used stamps; a lifetime lover of baseball, supporting the Atlanta Braves fan once he had moved to Georgia; and a life long champion of the Boy Scout movement. Before his funeral the family requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Dr. Allinger’s name to the Boy Scouts of America.