Awards

Year Award
1964 Leverhulme Prize, University of Liverpool.
1967 Parke-Davis Postgraduate Prize, University of Liverpool.
1967-1969 Fulbright Award, Harvard University.
1976 Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize of Chemical Society, London.
1977 D.Sc., University of Liverpool.
1977-2014 Awarded NIH R01 individual grants
1978-2003 Awarded NSF CHE individual award
1980 Corday-Morgan Lecturer at annual meeting of Chemical Society, London, in Cardiff, Wales.
1982 Vice-Chairman of Gordon Research Conference on Chemistry and Biology of Pyrrole Compounds.
1984 Chairman of Gordon Research Conference on Chemistry and Biology of Pyrrole Compounds.
1985 Visiting Professor, University of Aveiro, Portugal (3 months).
1988 Potts Medalist and Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK.
1989-1997 Visiting Professor, (University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France), 2 months/year/9 years.
1992 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Senior Fellow, Kyoto, Japan (1 month).
1994 Visiting Professor, University of Rome II, "Tor Vergata", Italy (1 month).
1995 Visiting Professor, University of Aveiro, Portugal (3 months).
1996 Visiting Professor, University of Aveiro, Portugal (1 month).
1997 Visiting Professor, University of Rome II, "Tor Vergata", Italy (1 month).
1997 University of California Management Institute. Graduated.
2000 Program Chair (Porphyrins), First International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, Dijon, France, June 25-30.
2000 Visiting Professor, (University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France), (2 months).
2000 Winner international publishing award for the best book in chemistry in 1999, awarded by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Association of Publishers.
2000-2001 Nuclear Regulatory Commission License Holder, UC Davis McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center
2001 Visiting Professor, University of Rennes, France (1 month).
2001 Visiting Professor, University of Rome II, "Tor Vergata", Italy (1 month).
2002 Visiting Professor, (University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France), (1 month).
2003 Scientific Committee, 2nd International Conference on Chemistry and Its Applications, December 6-9, Doha, Qatar.
2004 Conference Co-organizer, Third International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, July 11-16.
2006 Awarded the Robert B. Woodward Career Achievement Award in Porphyrin Chemistry (sponsored by the Society for Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines), at the Fourth International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, Rome, Italy, July 2-7.
2009 Awarded the American Chemical Society's Alfred Bader Award in Bioorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry. National award presented: Salt Lake City, March 2009.
2010 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
2014 Royal Society of Chemistry, 50 Year Member
2017 American Chemical Society, 50 Year Member