Awards and Honours
Leopoldina Honorary Membership
In 2010 Prof. Dr. Volker ter Meulen received the Leopoldina Honorary Membership.
The Academy’s highest honor, the Leopoldina Honorary Membership, is awarded to Academy members, who have made a significant contribution in their field to benefit the Academy. The Honorary Membership has been conferred to the following personalities so far:
| Year | Name | City | Section |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Professor Dr Paul J. Crutzen (geb. 1933) | Mainz | Earth Sciences |
| 2010 | Professor Dr Volker ter Meulen | Würzburg | Microbiology and Immunology |
| 2005 | Prof. Dr. Dr. Joachim-Hermann Scharf (1921 - 2014) | Halle | Anatomy and Anthropology |
| 2002 | Prof. Dr. Gottfried Geiler (1927 - 2018) | Leipzig | Pathology and Forensic Medicine |
| 1997 | Professor Dr Reimar Lüst (geb. 1923) | Hamburg | Physics |
| 1992 | Prof. Dr. Carl Friedrich Frhr. von Weizsäcker (1912 - 2007) | Starnberg | Physics |
| 1990 | Prof. Dr. Klaus Betke (1914 - 2011) | Lochham | Gynaecology and Paediatrics |
| 1987 | Professor Dr Eugen Seibold (11.05.1918 - 24.10.2013) | Freiburg (Br.) | Earth Sciences |
| 1977 | Hans Erhard Bock (1903 - 2004) | Tübingen | Internal Medicine and Dermatology |
| 1977 | Albert Frey-Wyssling (1900 - 1988) | Meikirch | Botanik |
| 1977 | Otto Kratky (1902 - 1995) | Graz | Physikalische Chemie |
| 1973 | Jan Hendrik Oort (1900 - 1992) | Astronomie und Astrophysik | |
| 1971 | Hans Hermann Weber (1896 - 1974) | Heidelberg | Physiologie |
| 1970 | Petr L. Kapica (1894 - 1984) | Moskau | Physics |
| 1969 | Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900 - 1981) | Oxford | Biochemistry and Biophysics |
| 1969 | Fritz Lipmann (1899 - 1986) | New York, NY | Biochemistry and Biophysics |
| 1967 | Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976) | Munich | Physics |
| 1965 | Karl Freudenberg (1886 - 1983) | Heidelberg | Chemistry |
| 1963 | Alfred Kühn (1885 - 1968) | Tübingen | Zoologie |
| 1960 | Prof. Dr. Adolf Butenandt (1903 - 1995) | Munich | Biochemistry and Biophysics |
| 1960 | Georg Sticker (1860 - 1960) | Zell am Main | History of Science and Medicine |
| 1960 | Georg von Hevesy (1885 - 1966) | Stockholm | Chemistry |
| 1958 | Max Born (1882 - 1970) | Göttingen | Physics |
| 1958 | Professor Dr James Franck (1882 - 1964) | Chicago | Physics |
| 1958 | Otto Renner (1883 - 1960) | Munich | Botanik |
| 1956 | Otto Hahn (1879 - 1968) | Göttingen | Chemistry |
| 1956 | Prof. Dr. Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883 - 1970) | Berlin | Zellbiologie |
| 1954 | Otto Schlüter (1872 - 1959) | Halle | Geographie |
| 1943 | Prof. Dr. Hans Fischer (1881 - 1945) | Munich | Chemistry |
| 1943 | Prof. Dr. Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873 - 1964) | Stockholm | Chemistry |
| 1943 | Paul von Walden (1863 - 1957) | Chemistry | |
| 1943 | Prof. Dr. Adolf Windaus (1876 - 1959) | Göttingen | Chemistry |
| 1942 | Bernhard Nocht (1857 - 1945) | Wiesbaden | Microbiology and Immunology |
| 1942 | Theodor Ziehen (1862 - 1950) | Wiesbaden | Psychiatrie, Med. Psychologie und Neurologie |
| 1941 | Prof. Dr. Max Planck (1858 - 1947) | Berlin | Physics |
| 1936 | Ludwig Aschoff (1866 - 1942) | Freiburg (Br.) | Pathologie |
| 1935 | Prof. Dr. Ivan P. Pavlov (1849 - 1936) | Leningrad | Physiologie |
| 1935 | Sven von Hedin (1865 - 1952) | Stockholm | Geographie |
| 1933 | Hermann Christ (1833 - 1933) | Botanik | |
| 1933 | Friedrich Schmidt-Ott (1860 - 1956) | Berlin | Pharmakologie |
| 1932 | Karl Friedrich Geiser (1843 - 1934) | Küsnacht | Mathematics |
| 1932 | Gottlieb Haberlandt (1854 - 1945) | Berlin | Botanik |
| 1932 | Albert Heim (1849 - 1937) | Zurich | Geologie und Paläontologie |
| 1932 | David Hilbert (1862 - 1943) | Göttingen | Mathematics |
| 1932 | Sir Frederick Hopkins (1861 - 1947) | Cambridge | Physiologie |
| 1932 | Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ostwald (1853 - 1932) | Leipzig | Physikalische Chemie |
| 1932 | Lord Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937) | Cambridge | Physics |
| 1932 | Anton von Eiselsberg (1860 - 1935) | Vienna | Chirurgie |
| 1932 | Richard von Hertwig (1850 - 1937) | Munich | Zoologie |
| 1932 | Oskar von Miller (1855 - 1934) | Munich | Physics |
| 1932 | Julius Wagner Ritter von Jauregg (1857 - 1940) | Vienna | Psychiatrie, Med. Psychologie und Neurologie |
| 1932 | Professor Dr Richard Willstätter (1872 - 1942) | Munich | Chemistry |
| 1928 | Otto Küstner (1849 - 1931) | Geburtshilfe und Gynäkologie | |
| 1925 | Carl Josef Eberth (1835 - 1926) | Berlin | Anatomie |
| 1925 | Ernst Ehlers (1835 - 1925) | Göttingen | Zoologie |
| 1925 | Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (1844 - 1930) | Berlin | Botanik |
| 1925 | Paul Walter Fürbringer (1849 - 1930) | Berlin | Dermatologie |
| 1925 | Einar Lönnberg (1865 - 1942) | Stockholm | Zoologie |
| 1925 | Felix Marchand (1846 - 1928) | Leipzig | Pathologie |
| 1925 | Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829 - 1927) | Munich | Botanik |
| 1925 | Alexander Anton Rosenberg (1839 - 1926) | Veterinary Medicine | |
| 1925 | Georg Schweinfurth (1836 - 1925) | Berlin | Botanik |
| 1925 | Bernhard Solger (1849 - 1935) | Anatomie | |
| 1925 | Rogier Verbeek (1845 - 1926) | Geologie und Paläontologie | |
| 1925 | Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1848 - 1928) | Dresden | Pathologie |
| 1925 | Wilhelm von Branco (1844 - 1928) | Munich | Geologie und Paläontologie |
| 1925 | Paul Zweifel (1848 - 1927) | Leipzig | Geburtshilfe und Gynäkologie |
| 1922 | Albert Wangerin (1844 - 1933) | Halle | Mathematics |
