Honors
- Officier of the Légion d'Honneur 1960
- Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris 1960
- Elected correspondante of the Académie des Sciences (Paris) 1962. First woman to be elected to the Académie since its founding in 1666.
- Lavoisier Prize of the Académie des Sciences 1964
- Silver Medal of the Société Chimique de France 1964
- Commandeur of the Ordre National du Mérite 1974
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