Awards
Arigoni has received numerous awards. In 1989 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry along with Alan R. Battersby of the University of Cambridge "for their fundamental contributions to the elucidation of the mechanism of enzymic reactions and of the biosynthesis of natural products, in particular the pigments of life". He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988.
Some other awards he has received are:
- Award and Silver Medal, ETH Zürich (1955)
- Werner-Award, Swiss Chemical Society (1960)
- Ruzicka-Award, ETH Zürich (1961)
- Piria-Medal, Italian Chemical Society (1962)
- Guenther-Award, American Chemical Society (1970)
- Cannizzaro-Award, Accademia dei Lincei, Roma (1971)
- Flintoff Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK (1981)
- Davy Medal, the Royal Society, London, UK (1983)
- Robert Robinson Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (1984)
- R. A. Welch-Award, Robert A. Welch Foundation, Houston, Texas, USA (1985)
- Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society, USA (1986)
- Paul Karrer Medal, University of Zürich (1989)
- Quilico-Medal, Italian Chemical Society (1992)
- Marcel Benoist Prize, Switzerland (1992)
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