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.
Por este traballo, compartiu un cuarto do Premio Nobel de Química en 1946, aínda que despois se demostrou que algunhas das súas conclusións (en particular, que os cristais eran proteínas puras, que se ensamblaban por autocatálise) eran incorretas.