• 1983 Member of the Academy of Sciences Göttingen

  • 1984 Visiting Professor at the University of Auburn, USA

  • 1986 Member of the Academy of Scientists "Leopoldina" in Halle/Saale

  • 1987 Visiting Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

  • 1987 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna

  • 1990 Georg-Ernst-Stahl-Medal

  • 1990 Dr. Sc. (hon.) Nankai-University, Tienjin,China

  • 1990 West Coast Lecturer, USA

  • 1991Member of the Senate of the Academy of Scientists "Leopoldina"

  • 1992 Dr. rer. nat. h.c. University Bielefeld

  • 1992 Visiting Professor at Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan

  • 1994 Dr. sc. chem. h.c. Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

  • 1995 Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, USA

  • 1995 George and Pauline Watt Centennial Lecturer,
    University of Texas at Austin, USA

  • 1995 Frontier Lecturer, A & M University,
    College Station, Texas, USA

  • 1995 Dr. h.c. University of Bucharest, Romania

  • 1996 Honorary Fellow of the National Indian Academy

  • 1997 Member of the Academia Europaea

  • 1997 Honorary Member of the Materials Research Society of India

  • 1999 Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

  • 1999 Corresponding Member of the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

  • 2000 Dr. h.c. Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

  • 2001 Honorary member of the Chemical Research Society of India

  • 2002 Associé étranger de l'Académie des Sciences, France

  • 2002 Member to the European Academy of Sciences, Brussels

  • 2003 President of the Academy of Sciences, University of Göttingen

  • 2003 Member of the Leibniz-Sozietät, Berlin

  • 2004 Member of the Senate of "Leopoldina"

  • 2004 Honorary Professor of Southern University, Changsha, China

  • 2004 Member of the European Academy of Science and Arts, Austria

  • 2004 Member of ICMGC Council Wroclaw, Poland

  • 2004 Adjunct Professor of Northern Illinois University, deKalb, USA

  • 2004 Corresponding Member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • 2005 Doctor honoris causa, University of Columbia, Missouri, USA

  • 2005 Honorary Professor, University of Beijing, China

  • 2006 Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay, India

  • 2015 Honorary Doctor, St. Andrews University, Scotland




Siehe auch Bericht im Göttinger Tageblatt