Meritorious Awards and Positions
- State Orders Minister of Higher Education: awarded individual State Prize of 1st degree (1964)
- Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland; the order of millennium (1966) for “discovering new alkaloids and studying their structure”
- Merited Culture Activist, Distinction (1969)
- Officer Cross of the order of “Polonia Restituta” (1951)
- Commander Cross of the order of “Polonia Restituta” (1954)
- Order of the Banner of Labor, First Class (1969)
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technical University of Łódź (1960)
- Director of the Institute of Polish Culture in London (1964–1969)
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