1980

Corday Morgan Medal and Prize (Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC)

1981

The 1981-1983 Hickinbottom Research Fellowship (joint 1st recipient) (RSC)

1983

Pfizer Academic Award (1st recipient) (Pfizer PLC)

1988

Tilden Lectureship and Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry)

1989

Award for Organic Synthesis (Royal Society of Chemistry)

1992

Pedler Lectureship, Medal and Prize (Royal Society of Chemistry)

1993

Simonsen Lectureship and Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry)

1993

Award for Natural Product Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry)

1994

Adolf Windaus Medal (German Chemical Society - Georg-August University, Göttingen)

1995

The Novartis Research Fellowship (1995 - 2007) (Novartis)

1995

The Flintoff Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry)

1995

The Dr. Paul Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis (Janssen Research Foundation)

1996

George Kenner Award and Lectureship (University of Liverpool)

1997

The Bakerian Lecturer (The Royal Society)

1998

The Rhône-Poulenc Lectureship, Medal and Prize (Royal Society of Chemistry)

1999

The GlaxoWellcome Award for Outstanding Achievement in Organic Chemistry (1st recipient)

2000

The Davy Medal (The Royal Society)

2001

Haworth Memorial Lectureship, Medal and Prize (Royal Society of Chemistry)

2001

August-Wilhelm-von Hofmann Medal (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker)

2001

The Pfizer Award for Innovative Science (1st chemist recipient) (Pfizer Global R & D)

2003

The Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products (American Chemical Society)

2003

Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award

2003

Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry)

2004

The Messel Medal (The Society of Chemical Industry)

2004

Innovation of the Year Award: Jointly with AstraZeneca, Avecia and Syngenta (Chemical Industries Association)

2004

iChemE Award for Innovation in Applied Catalysis. (The iAc Award)

2004

Teamwork in Innovation Award (Royal Society of Chemistry)

2004

Alexander-von-Humboldt Award (Germany)

2005

The Yamada-Koga Prize (Japan Research Foundation for Optically Active Compounds)

2006

The Robert Robinson Lectureship, Medal and Prize (Royal Society of Chemistry)

2006

The Nagoya Gold Medal (Banyu Life Science Foundation International, Japan)

2006

Thomson Scientific Laureate in Chemistry

2007

Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (American Chemical Society)

2007

Paul Karrer Gold Medal (University of Zürich, Switzerland)

2007

The SCI Innovation Award (Society of Chemical Industry-1st recipient)

2007

Société Française de Chimie, Medal on the Occasion of 150th Anniversary

2008

Hans Herloff Inhoffen Medal, Helmholtz Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, Germany

2008

Prous Institute-Overton and Meyer Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery (European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry)

2008

High Throughput Drug Discovery Methodologies Award (Royal Society of Chemistry)

2009

U.R. Ghatak Endowment Lecture and Gold Medal (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India)

2009

Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry, (Royal Society of Chemistry – 1st recipient)

2009

The Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry (Elsevier)

2009

Heinrich Wieland Prize (Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany)

2010

The Paracelsus Prize (Swiss Chemical Society)

2011

The Royal Medal (Royal Society)

2013

The Longstaff Prize (Royal Society of Chemistry)

2013

Société Chimique de France SCF, Franco-Britannique Prize

2014

IUPAC-Thales Nano Prize in Flow Chemistry

2018

Arthur C. Cope Award (American Chemical Society)