Special Distinctions: Awards and Honors
1975 Outstanding Publication Award, Environmental Research Laboratories, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A
1977 Special Achievement Award, Environmental Research Laboratories, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A
1983 NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award to SME Project Operations and Control Center Team
1984 Rolex-Discover Scientist of the Year
1985 Centennial Medallion for participation in the Centennial Colloquium of the Georgia Institute of Technology
1985 “The Fourth Raymond R. Tucker Memorial Lecturer in Mechanical Engingeering”, Washington University,School of Engineering
1985 Recipient of the Leo Szilard Award for "Physics in the Public Interest" of the American Physical Society
1987 Lindsay Memorial Lecturer, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
1989 Recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
1990 Tracy and Ruth Storer Lecturer at the University of California, Davis, U.S.A
1991 Recipient of the Volvo Environmental Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden
1993 Ida Beam Visiting Professor, The University of Iowa, USA
1994 Recipient of the Deutscher Umweltpreis of the Umweltstiftung (DBU) (German Environmental Prize of the Federal Foundation for the Environment)
1994 Recipient of the Max-Planck Forschungspreis (Research Prize) (with M.Molina, USA)
1994 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecturer in Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
1994 Aristoteles Lecturer at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
1994 Group Achievement Award (to HALOE Science Data Validation, Data Processing, and Flight Operations Team) for outstanding contributions to the success of the HALOE/UARS satellite experiment by NASA Langley Research Center
1995 Recipient of the Global Ozone Award for "Outstanding Contribution to the Protection of the Ozone Layer" by UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)
1995 Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with M. Molina and F.S. Rowland, USA)
1996 "Commandeur in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw" (knighted by the Queen of The Netherlands)
1996 Symons Memorial Lecturer of the Royal Meteorological Society of England, Imperial College, London
1996 Recipient of the Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stern (Federal Merit Cross with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany)1996 Holder of the 'Ehrenring' (ring of honour) of the City of Mainz
1996 Name “Prof. Dr. P.J. Crutzenlaan” given to a street in De Bilt, The Netherlands
1996 Election to the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
1996 Recipient of The Louis J. Battan Author's Award (with Dr. T.E. Graedel, USA) by the American Meteorological Society for “their book entitled Atmosphere, Climate and Change, an authoritative and beautifully illustrated introduction to the role of the atmosphere in global change”
1996 Recipient of The Minnie Rosen Award for "High Achievement in Service to Mankind" of Ross University, New York
1996 Recipient of the Médaille d'Or de la Ville de Grenoble, France
1997 Ceremonial Lecturer (Festvortrag) at the Annual General Assembly of the Max-Planck-Society, Bremen
1997 Erasmus Lecturer and Medalist of the Academia Europaeae
1997 Shipley Distinguished Lecturer, Clarkson University, Potsdam, USA
1997 “XXVII Krishnan Memorial Lecturer”, Title: 30 Years of Progress in Atmospheric Chemistry, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India
1998 45th Gilbert N. Lewis Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, USA
1998 "First Lecturer in the Thompson Lecture Series", Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
1998 Ceremonial Lecturer (Festvortrag) at the Annual Assembly of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society), Regensburg.
1998 Public lecturer at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA
1999 H. Julian Allan Award 1998, in recognition of the outstanding scientific paper (co-authored) for 1998 at NASA Ames
1999 Eyring Lecturer at the Arizona State University
2000 Named among "Heroes for the Planet" by TIME Magazine, Special Issue April/May 2000, Earth Day 2000
2000 Name “Crutzen” given to asteroid n° 9679 on Nov. 11, 2000 (asteroid discovered by C.J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld on September 24, 1960)
2000 “Beatty Memorial” Lecturer at McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2000 The Third “Rosenblith” Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Atmospheric Chemistry in the 21st Century (Co-speaker M. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland)
2001 Honorary Chairman “Climate Conference 2001”, 20.-24. August, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
2001 Honored by the Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Athens, Greece, for outstanding contributions to Science and Society
2002 Worldwide most cited author in the Geosciences with 2911 citations from 110 publications during the decade 1991-2001, ISI (Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, USA), issue November/December 20012003 Receipient of the Golden Medal (highest destination),The Academy of Athens
2003 Paul Crutzen Prize awarded to the best paper for participants in the International Young Scientists’ Global Change START Conference, Trieste, Italy, November 16-19, 2003
2005 Recipient of the UNEP/WMO Vienna Convention Award
2005 Distinguished Lecturer in Science, The Hongkong University of Science and Technology School of Science
2006 Recipient of the Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Medal 2006, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India
2007 Named among “Heroes of the Environment” by TIME Magazine
2008 Recipient of the Capo d’Orlando Award, Discepolo Foundation, Vico Equense, Italy
2008 Einstein Lecture Dahlem, Free University Berlin, Germany
2013 Recipient of the Landesverdienstordens of Rheinland-Pfalz (Order of Merit of the land Rhineland-Palatinate), Mainz, Germany
2018 Recipient of the Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award, (California Air Resources Board), Sacramento, USA
2019 Recipient of the Lomonosov Gold Medal, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
Foreign Honorary Member (IHM) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, USA (since 1986)
Honorary Member of the International Ozone Commission of IAMAS (International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences) (since 1996)
Honorary Member of the International Ozone Commission (IO3C) (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics) (since 1996)
Honorary Fellow of Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, India (since 1997)
Honorary Member of the American Meteorological Society (since 1997)
Honorary Member of the European Geophysical Society (EGS (since 1997)
Honorary Fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford, England (since 1998)
Honorary Member of the Committee of EUROSCIENCE (European Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology), Strasbourg (since 1999)
Honorary Member of the Swedish Meteorological Society (Svenska Meteorologiska Sällskapet) (since 2000)
Ambassador for the Environment of the European Commission for the Environment (since 2001)
Honorary Member of the The World innovation Foundation (since 2002)
Honorary Member of the The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and the Angelo Roncalli International Committee, Jerusalem (since 2003)
Honorary Member of the International Polar Foundation, Brussels (since 2003)
Honorary Member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) (since 2004)
Foreign Member of The British Royal Society (allowed to use the title Paul Josef Crutzen, ForMemRS), London, UK (since 2006)
Honorary Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea), Salzburg, Austria (since 2007)
Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Green Professionals, Weston, Florida, USA. Entitled to use the identifiere “Hon. FIGP” (since 2007)
Honorary Member of the Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (iCACGP/CACGP) (since 2010)
Honorary Member of the „Naturforschende Gesellschaft zu Emden von 1814“, Emden, Germany (since 2011)
Honorary Member of “Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina”, Halle, Germany (since 2014); (Member since 1992)
Founder Member of the Institute for Earth System Preservation (IESP), Garching, Germany and Honorary Member (since 2015)
Honorary Member of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV), The Hague, The Netherlands (since 2017)
Honorary Member of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (part of the International Commission on Stratigraphy) (since 2019); (Founder Member 2009)