 He is a past winner of The Welding Institute's Brooker Award and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining's Bessemer Gold Medal for contributions to the steel industry.He was invited to deliver the Hatfield Memorial Lecture in 1997 and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Metallurgy at the University of Sheffield in 1998.In 2003 he was presented with the IIW Arata Prize for his contribution to the science of welding and joining.