Award Edinburgh University

Royal Society of Edinburgh (fellow | 1970)

American Society of Economic Botany (Distinguished Economic Botanist Award | 1991)

Royal Society (fellow | 1974)

Royal College of Surgeons of England (Lister Medal | 1984)

Knight Bachelor (1986)

Royal Society of Medicine (Ellison-Cliffe Medal | 1990)

Ernst Jung Prize (1992)

Addenbrooke's hospital (named its specialist transplant unit after him)

British Humanist Association (distiniguished supporter)

Royal Society (fellow | 1914)

knighthood (1932)

Order of the British Empire (Knight Grand Cross | 1943)

Order of Merit (1944)

Wellcome Trust (Sir Henry Dale Fellowships are named in his honour)

Society for Endocrinology (Dale Medal awarded annually in his honour)

Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (member | 1965)

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (member | 1965 | president | 1983)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (foreign honorary member | 1966)

Columbia University (Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize | 1975)

Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine, 1982)

Illis quorum (1985)

Pontifical Academy of Sciences (member | 1985)

American Philosophical Society (member)

National Academy of Sciences (US | member)