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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. 

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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

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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)

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Education awards

• Prix Leonardo Bronze Medal (2001)
• Chemical Industries Association (Presidents prize short list, 1998 and 1999)

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Honorary degrees

• Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
• University of Stockholm (Sweden)
• University of Limburg (Belgium)
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• University of Kingston (UK)
• University of Sussex (UK)
• University of Helsinki (Finland)
• University of Nottingham (UK)
• Yokohama City University (Japan)
• 91Ö±²¥ 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)

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Honorary degrees returned due to closure of Chemistry courses

• Hertfordshire University
• Exeter University