Achievements
Details of awards and honorary degrees given to Sir Harry Kroto.
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Awards
- Sunday Times book jacket design competition (1963)
When Harry was a research student, his design was entered for a book jacket design competition and it won the amateur category.
I learned one major lesson from the fact that none of the professionals had a single original idea and just rehashed the Times coat of arms. I realised that design was more important than ideas in this field!
Sir Harry Kroto
The book was a compendium of essays previously published in the Sunday Times, in Harry's design, the authors were on the typewriter keys. The original was stolen but fortunately Harry had a colour photograph taken (at great expense in those days!).
- Nobel Prize for Chemistry (shared with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley, October 1996)
Awards list
- Tilden Lectureship of the RSC (1981)
- International Prize for New Materials by the American Physical Society (shared with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley, 1992)
- Italgas Prize for Innovation in Chemistry (1992)
- Royal Society of Chemistry Longstaff Medal (1993)
- Hewlett Packard Europhysics Prize (shared with Wolfgang Kraetschmer, Don Huffman and Richard Smalley, 1994)
- Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton LVMH, 'Science pour l’Art' prize (1994)
- Knighthood (January 1996)
- American Carbon Society Medal for Achievement in Carbon Science (shared with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley, 1997)
- Dalton Medal (Manchester Lit and Phil, 1998)
- Blackett Lectureship (Royal Society, 1999)
- Faraday Award and (Royal Society, 2001)
- Erasmus Medal of Academia Europaea
- Ioannes Marcus Marci Medal 2000 for spectroscopy (Prague, 2000)
- Copley Medal of the Royal Society (2002)
- Order of Cherubini (Torino, 2005)
- Kavli Lecturer (2008)
Education awards
- Prix Leonardo Bronze Medal (2001)
- Chemical Industries Association (Presidents prize short list, 1998 and 1999)
Honorary degrees
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
- University of Stockholm (Sweden)
- University of Limburg (Belgium)
- ºù«Ӱҵ (UK)
- University of Kingston (UK)
- University of Sussex (UK)
- University of Helsinki (Finland)
- University of Nottingham (UK)
- Yokohama City University (Japan)
- ºù«Ӱҵ Hallam University (UK)
- University of Aberdeen (Scotland)
- University of Leicester (UK)
- University of Aveiro (Portugal)
- University of Bielefeld (Germany)
- University of Hull (UK)
- Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
- Hong Kong City University (HK China)
- Gustavus Adolphus College (Minnesota, US)
- University College London (UK)
- University of Patras (Greece)
- University of Dalhousie (Halifax, NovaScotia, Canada)
- University of Strathclyde (Scotland)
- University of Manchester (UK)
- Kraków Mining University (Poland)
- University of Durham (UK)
- Queens University Belfast (NI)
- University of Surrey (UK)
- Polytechnico di Torino (Italy)
- University of Chemical Technology – Beijing (China)
- University of Liverpool (UK)
- Florida Southern College (US)
- Keio University (Japan) Press release (PDF, 541KB)
- University of Chiba (Japan)
- University of Bolton (UK)
- University of Hartford (US)
- University of Tel Aviv (Israel)
- University of Poitiers (France)
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Naresuan University (Thailand)
- Vietnam National University (Hanoi)
- Edinburgh University (UK)
- University of Primorska (Slovenia)
Honorary degrees returned due to closure of Chemistry courses
- Hertfordshire University
- Exeter University