[8][12] Ritchie has won numerous awards including the David Turnbull Lectureship from the Materials Research Society in 2013,[13] the Acta Materialia Gold Medal in 2014, and the Morris Cohen Award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) in 2017.

[8] He was also the inaugural winner of the Sir Alan Cottrell Gold Medal from the International Congress on Fracture in 2009.

In 2006, Ritchie was distinguished with the August Wöhler Medal given by the European Structural Integrity Society.

[8] “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” "Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies".

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