Awards and Honors
- 1930 – Rumford Medal for work relating to specific heats and X-ray spectroscopy
- 1937 – Franklin Medal from The Franklin Institute.
- 1936 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (entry at nobelprize.org) "for his contributions to the study of molecular structure," primarily referring to his work on dipole moments and X-ray diffraction
- 1963 – Priestley Medal
- 1965 – National Medal of Science
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