Honors
1947 the Knight Order of Orange-Nassau of the Netherlands
1950 the Fritizche award of American Chemical Society
1964 the Tolman Award of American Chemical Society
1973 National Medal of Science Physical Sciences of the United States of America
1974 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
He was also the recipient of the Smithsonian Medal, the $50,000 Alice Tyler Ecology Prize, and the Rhineland Award.
He was the Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands.
He was the trustee of the American Chemical Society.
1977 On January 3rd the existing California Air Resources Board Laboratory in El Monte, Ca. was dedicated to Dr. Haagen-Smit. It is called the "Haagen-Smit Laboratory."
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