1 / 2024 // LEOPOLDINA / NEWS 13
ics Section , was awarded the Hector Science Award by the H . W . & J . Hector Stiftung zu Weinheim and the Hector Foundation II ( Weinheim / Germany ).
Hans-Christian Pape ML , Member of the Section Neurosciences , was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Medical Faculty of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg ( Würzburg / Germany ). He was also awarded the Officer ’ s Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany .
Stuart Parkin ML , Member of the Physics Section , was awarded the 2024 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering by the National Academy of Engineering ( NAE ) ( Washington , D . C ./ USA ). He was also honoured with the APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research by the American Physical Society ( APS ) ( College Park / USA ).
Peter R . Schreiner ML , Member of the Chemistry Section , was presented with the 2024 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award by the German Research Foundation ( DFG ) ( Bonn / Germany ).
Petra Schwille ML , Member of the Physics Section , was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany .
Armido Studer ML , Member of the Chemistry Section , was awarded the Paracelsus Prize by the Swiss Chemical Society ( SCS ) ( Bern / Switzerland ).
Eva Viehmann ML , Member of the Mathematics Section , was presented with the 2024 Gottfried Wilhelm Leib niz Award by the German Research Foundation ( DFG ) ( Bonn / Germany ).
Claire Voisin ML , Member of the Mathematics Section , was awarded the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics by the Crafoord Foundation ( Lund / Sweden ) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( Stockholm / Sweden ).
Anke Weidenkaff ML , Member of the Engineering Sciences Section , was elected as Member of acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering ( Munich / Germany ).
Lothar Heinz Wieler ML , Member of the Global Health Section , was awarded the Officer ’ s Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany .
Deceased members
Reinhard Kühnau ML | 26 October 1936 to 18 November 2022 | Halle ( Saale )/ Germany | Mathematics Section
Heiner Müller-Krumbhaar ML | 20 April 1944 to 23 January 2024 | Jülich / Germany | Physics Section
Hermann Passow ML | 18 December 1925 to 21 November 2023 | Wetter / Germany | Biochemistry and Biophysics Section
Yutaka Sano ML | 18 April 1926 to 23 July 2023 | Kyoto / Japan | Anatomy and Anthropology Section
Klaus Peter Sauer ML | 02 February 1941 to 12 November 2022 | Bonn / Germany | Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Section
Ulrich Schneeweiß ML | 25 March 1923 to 22 December 2023 | Berlin / Germany | Microbiology and Immunology Section
Jörg Rüdiger Siewert ML | 08 February 1940 to 09 January 2024 | Heidelberg / Germany | Surgery , Orthopaedics , Anaesthesiology Section
New Class IV members
Katrin Amunts ML , Düsseldorf / Germany , Universitäts klinikum Düsseldorf , Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Section
Cornelius Borck ML , Lübeck / Germany , Universität zu Lübeck , History of Science and Medicine Section
Wilhelm Hofmann ML , Bochum / Germany , Ruhr University Bochum , Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Section
Michela Massimi ML , Edinburgh / UK , University of Edinburgh , Philosophy of Science Section
David Poeppel ML , Frankfurt am Main / Germany , Ernst Strüngmann Institute , Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Section
Bernd Skiera ML , Frankfurt am Main / Germany , Goethe University Frankfurt , Economics and Empirical Social Sciences Section