Awards and Lectureships

1987                     
Leibniz Prize - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn, Germany

1995                    
Washburn Award, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA

1997                     
Dr. h.c. Technical University Cluj-Napoca/Romania

1996                     
Barrè Lecture, University of Montreal, Canada

1998                     
Kolthoff Lectures, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

1998                     
Dr. h.c. Adam Mickiewicz-University, Poznan/Poland

1999                     
Vaughan Lecturer Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance, Denver, USA

2000                     
Eastern Analytical Award for Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance, USA

2000                    
Honorary Lecture, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA

2002                     
Liebig Medal - Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), Germany

2002                     
AMPERE-Prize - Groupement AMPERE, Zürich, Switzerland

2002                     
Presidential Medal, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

2003                     
SPSJ Award, Society of Polymer Science and Technology, Japan

2007                     
Honorary Professor, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

2005                     
Walther Nernst Medal, Bunsengesellschaft Physikalische Chemie, Germany

2010                     
Zavoisky Prize, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russian Federation

2010                     
Paul J. Flory Polymer Research Prize, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

2011                     
Honorary Member of the Society of Polymer Science and Technology, Japan

2011                     
Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz, Germany

2012                     
Honorary Member of the NMR Society of India

2013                     
Honorary Member of the NMR Society of Japan

2015                    
ISMAR Prize, International Society of Magnetic Resonance