For his work, he was awarded 1/3 of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946, even though it was later shown some of his conclusions (in particular, that the crystals were pure protein, and assembled by autocatalysis) were incorrect.
Zbog tih istraživanja mu je 1946. godine dodeljena 1/4 Nobelove nagrade za hemiju, iako se kasnije pokazalo da su neki od njegovih zaključaka bili neispravni (ti su kristali bili čist protein i sastavljeni su procesom autokatalaze).