Award Albert Medal

Order of Merit (1935)

Cobbett Medal (1930)

Shakespeare Prize (1937)

Howland Memorial Prize (1954)

Knighthood (1933)

Fellow, Royal Academy of Music

Fellow, Royal Statistical Society

British Association for the Advancement of Science

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz ∙ 1985)

Order of the Bath (Knight Commander ∙ 1973)

Order of the British Empire (Commander)

l'Ordre National du Mérite (Commandeur ∙ 1976)

Légion d'Honneur

John Fritz Medal (1907)

William Hopkins Prize (1882)

Hughes Medal (1909)

Royal Medal of the Royal Society (1931)

Order of the Bath (Companion, 1910)

Knight Batchelor (1917)

Order of the Bath (Knight Commander, 1920)

Royal Victorian Order (Knight Commander, 1934)

Medal of Merit (1947)

Nobel Prize (Physics, 1947)

Faraday Medal (1946)

Hughes Medal (1933)

Chree Medal (1947)

Royal Medal of the Royal Society (1950)

Order of the British Empire (Knight Grand Cross)

Order of the Bath (Knight Commander, 1941)

IEEE Medal of Honor (1962)

King Haakon VII Freedom Cross

IRE Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize (1929)

Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal (1948)