In 1903 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and 1916 a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 1921 he was awarded a Telford Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers and in 1922, in recognition of his work on the photo-elastic method of measuring stress, a Howard N. Potts gold medal for physics by the Franklin Institute. In 1924 he was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in Toronto.
