 Martell was honored with awards including the Southwest Regional Award of the American Chemical Society, the ACS Award for Distinguished Service to Inorganic Chemistry, and the Patterson-Crane Award.He was elected an honorary lifetime fellow of the New York Academy of Science and to honorary membership in the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry.He was a 1953 Guggenheim Fellow, an NIH Special Fellow, and a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellow.