| 1978 | Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics. |
| 1982 | Elected to the Royal Society of London. |
| 1983 | Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. |
| 1983 | Elected Fellow of the Royal Institution. |
| 1986 | Elected Member of the Royal Society of Sciences, Uppsala. |
| 1989 | Elected member of the European Academy |
| 1990 | Julius Edgar Lilienfeld prize of the American Physical Society |
| 1990 | Paul Dirac Medal and prize of the Institute of Physics |
| 1990 | Elected to Indian Academy of Sciences |
| 1990 | Royal Medal of the Royal Society |
| 1993 | Naylor Prize, London Mathematical Society |
| 1994 | Louis-Vuitton Moët-Hennessey 'Science for Art' prize (Paris) |
| 1995 | Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize |
| 1995 | Elected Foreign Member of the National Academy of Science of the USA |
| 1995 | Elected Member of the London Mathematical Society |
| 1996 | Dirac Medal and Prize of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. |
| 1996 | Knight Bachelor Queen's Birthday Honours, 15 June |
| 1997 | Kapitsa Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| 1998 | Wolf Prize in Physics |
| 1998 | Elected a Governor of the Weizmann Institute |
| 1999 | Honorary Fellow, Institute of Physics |
| 2000 | Elected Foreign Member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 2000 | Ig Nobel prize in physics |
| 2001 | Onsager Medal (Norwegian Technical University, Trondheim) |
| 2002 | 2002 Novartis/Daily Telegraph 'Visions of Science' competition, 1st prize (Science as Art), 3rd prize (Science Concepts) |
| 2005 | Elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh |
| 2005 | Polya Prize, London Mathematical Society |
| 2005 | Chancellor's Medal, University of Bristol |
| 2010 | Elected first Honorary Member of the Mexican Mathematical Society |
| 2012 | Distinguished Visiting Professor, Marymount University, Virginia |