Editing Richard Smalley (section)

==Honors==
===Fellowships===
* Harold W. Dodds Fellow, Princeton University, 1973
* Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1978–1980
* Fellow of the [[American Physical Society]], 1987
* [[Fellow of the AAAS|Fellow]] of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]], 2003

===Awards and prizes===
*[[Irving Langmuir]] Prize in Chemical Physics, American Physical Society, 1991
*[[Popular Science]] Magazine Grand Award in Science & Technology, 1991
*APS [[International Prize for New Materials]], 1992 (Joint with R. F. Curl & H. W. Kroto)
*Ernest O. Lawrence Memorial Award, [[U.S. Department of Energy]], 1992
*Welch Award in Chemistry, [[Robert A. Welch Foundation]], 1992
*Auburn-G.M. Kosolapoff Award, Auburn Section, [[American Chemical Society]], 1992
*Southwest Regional Award, American Chemical Society, 1992
*[[William H. Nichols]] Medal, New York Section, American Chemical Society, 1993
*The John Scott Award, City of Philadelphia, 1993
*Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize, [[European Physical Society]], 1994 (with Wolfgang Kraetschmer, [[Donald Huffman|Don Huffman]] and Harold Kroto)
*Harrison Howe Award, Rochester Section, American Chemical Society, 1994
*Madison Marshall Award, North Alabama Section, American Chemical Society, 1995
*[[Franklin Medal]], [[The Franklin Institute]], 1996<ref name="Franklin"/>
*[[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]], 1996
*Distinguished Civilian Public Service Award, Department of the Navy, 1997
*[[American Carbon Society]] Medal, 1997
*Top 75 Distinguished Contributors, Chemical & Engineering News, 1998
*Lifetime Achievement Award, Small Times Magazine, 2003
*[[Glenn T. Seaborg Medal]], [[University of California at Los Angeles]], 2002
*Distinguished Alumni Award, Hope College, 2005
*50th Anniversary Visionary Award, [[SPIE]] – International Society for Optical Engineering, 2005
* [[National Historic Chemical Landmarks|National Historic Chemical Landmark]], American Chemical Society, 2010<ref name="ChemLandmark">{{cite web|title=Discovery of Fullerenes National Historic Chemical Landmark|url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/fullerenes.html|website=American Chemical Society|access-date=July 18, 2016}}</ref>
* Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award, Division of History of Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2015<ref name="Award">{{cite web|title= 2015 Awardees|url=http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/CCB-2015_Awardees.php|website=American Chemical Society, Division of the History of Chemistry|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Chemical Sciences|date=2015|access-date=July 1, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Breakthrough">{{cite web|title=Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award|url=http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/Citations/2015-Kroto%20plaque.pdf|website=American Chemical Society, Division of the History of Chemistry|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Chemical Sciences|date=2015|access-date=July 1, 2016}}</ref>