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1986: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation

1986: Franz Vogt Award of the University of Giessen

1989: Founding member of the Academia Europaea

1989: Corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences

1990: Corresponding member of North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts

1990: Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS), London

1990: Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington

1991: Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

1991: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

1991: Honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht

1991: Honorary doctorate from Princeton University

1991: Keith R. Porter Lecture

1992: Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize

1992: Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine

1992: Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University

1992: Otto Warburg Medal of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

1993: Honorary doctorate from the University of Freiburg

1993: Honorary doctorate from Harvard University

1993: Sir Hans Krebs Medal from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies

1994: Merit Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany

1995: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1996: Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg

1997: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts

2001–2006: Member of the National Ethics Council of the Federal Government

2005: Grand Merit Cross with Star and Sash of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband)

2007: German Founder Award of the Federation of German Foundations

2008: Mercator Professorship, University of Duisburg-Essen

2009: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art

2011: Honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews

2013: Honorary doctorate from the University of Bath

2013: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts

2014: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art

Member of the French Academy of Sciences

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Ingrid-to-Solms Foundation

Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization

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