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of the International Association of Agricultural Economists ( IAAE ).
Manfred Scheer ML , member of the Chemistry Section , was awarded the Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences by the Royal Society of Chemistry ( London / UK ).
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber ML , member of the Physics Section , was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .
Bettina Schöne-Seifert ML , member of the Epistemology Section , was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea ( London / UK ).
Jens Scholz ML , member of the Surgery , Orthopaedics , Anaesthesiology Section , was elected as Chair of the Verband der Universitätsklinika Deutschlands ( Association of University Hospitals in Germany , VUD ).
Andreas Voßkuhle ML , member of the Cultural Sciences Section , was elected Vice President of the German Research Foundation ( DFG ).
Lothar H . Wieler ML , member of the Global Health Section , was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover ( TiHo ) and from the Vetsuisse Faculty at the University of Zurich / Switzerland . He was also awarded the Albrecht von Graefe Medal from the Berliner Medizinische Gesellschaft ( Berlin Medical Society ).
Johann-Dietrich Wörner ML , member of the Engineering Sciences Section , was named Space Travel Coordinator for the German federal state of Hesse .
Deceased members
Wolfgang U . Eckart ML | 7 February 1952 to 16 August 2021 | Heidelberg / Germany | History of Science and Medicine Section
Richard Ernst ML | 14 August 1933 to 4 June 2021 | Zurich / Switzerland | Chemistry Section
Cornelis de Jager ML | 29 April 1921 to 27 May 2021 | Texel / Netherlands | Physics Section
Joachim Kalden ML | 23 November 1937 to 6 February 2021 | Erlangen / Germany | Internal Medicine and Dermatology Section
Hans Dieter Klenk ML | 25 June 1938 to 1 June 2021 | Marburg / Germany | Microbiology and Immunology Section
Werner Köhler ML | 24 March 1929 to 2 August 2021 | Jena / Germany | Microbiology and Immunology Section
Rolf Kreienberg ML | 27 October 1946 to 10 May 2021 | Ulm / Germany | Gynaecology and Paediatrics Section
Boris Lapin ML | 10 August 1921 to 30 April 2020 | Sochi / Russia | Pathology and Forensic Medicine Section
Peter Meier-Abt ML | 10 May 1947 to 27 May 2021 | Zurich / Switzerland | Physiology and Pharmacology / Toxicology Section
Gottfried O . H . Naumann ML | 25 April 1935 to 5 June 2021 | Erlangen / Germany | Ophthalmology , Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Stomatology Section
Günther Sterba ML | 20 May 1922 to 15 June 2021 | Markkleeberg / Germany | Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Section
New Class II members
Patrick A . Baeuerle ML , Cambridge / USA , MPM Capital LLC
Melanie Blokesch ML , Lausanne / Switzerland , Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Ulrich Brandt ML , Nijmegen / Netherlands , Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences , Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center
Lars Chittka ML , London / UK , School of Biological and Chemical Sciences , Queen Mary University of London
Christian Drosten ML , Berlin / Germany , Institute of Virology , Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Jeanette Erdmann ML , Lübeck / Germany , Institute for Cardiogenetics , Universität zu Lübeck
Charlotte Förster ML , Würzburg / Germany , Chair of