4 / 2022 // LEOPOLDINA / NEWS 17
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Awards and Honours
Michael Baumann ML , Member of the Radiology Section , received an Honorary Doctorate in Health from the University of Aarhus ( Denmark ).
Matthias Beller ML , Member of the Chemistry Section , received the Luigi Sacconi Medal 2022 from the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society ( Rome / Italy ) and the Luigi Sacconi Foundation ( Sesto Fiorentino / Italy ).
Carolyn R . Bertozzi ML , Member of the Chemistry Section , received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( Stockholm / Sweden ).
Wolfram Burgard ML , Member of the Informatics Section , received the “ German AI Prize 2022 ” from the newspaper WELT and Axel Springer SE ( Berlin / Germany ).
Lorraine J . Daston ML , Member of the History of Science and Medicine Section , was awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize 2020 from the Gerda Henkel Foundation ( Düsseldorf / Germany ).
Donald Bruce Dingwell ML , Member of the Earth Sciences Section , was awarded the Willet G . Miller Medal 2022 of the Royal Society of Canada ( Ottawa / Kanada ).
Ottmar Edenhofer ML , Member of the Economics and Empirical Social Sciences Section , will assume the Mercator Professorship at the University Duisburg-Essen / Germany in 2022 .
Ute Frevert ML , Member of the Cultural Sciences Section , was appointed new President of the Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes Abroad ( MWS ) by Bettina Stark-Watzinger , German Minister for Education and Research .
Harald Fuchs ML , Member of the Physics Section , was awarded the International Cooperation Award for Science and Technology of the People ’ s Republic of China .
Peter Hänggi ML , Member of the Physics Section , received the Lars Onsager Prize 2023 of the American Physical Society ( APS ) ( College Park / USA ).
Gerald H . Haug ML , Member of the Earth Sciences Section and President of the Leopoldina , was appointed Fellow of Class 2022 of the American Geophysical Union ( Washington D . C ./ USA ).
Anthony Hyman ML , Member of the Genetics / Molecular Biology and Cell Biology Section , received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences 2023 of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation ( New York City / USA ).
Stefan H . E . Kaufmann ML , Member of the Microbiology and Immunology Section , was awarded the Ernst Hellmut Vits-Prize 2022 of the University Society Münster ( Münster / Germany ).
Ursula Keller ML , Member of the Physics Section , was awarded the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize by the Marcel Benoist Foundation ( Bern / Switzerland ).
Hans Keppler ML , Member of the Earth Sciences Section , was awarded the Silver Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal 2022 of the German Mineralogical Society ( Jena / Germany ).
Ottoline Leyser ML , Member of the Organic and Evolutionary Biology Section , received the Croonian Medal and Lecture 2023 of the Royal Society ( London / UK ).
Franc Meyer ML , Member of the Chemistry Section , received the GDCh-Prize for Inorganic Chemistry of the German Chemical Society ( Frankfurt am Main / Germany ).
Svante Pääbo ML , Member of the Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine Section , received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022 from the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute ( Stockholm / Sweden ).
Stefan M . Pfister ML , Member of the Gynaecology and Paediatrics Section , received the Baden-Württemberg State Research Award 2022 from the Ministry of Science , Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg ( Stuttgart / Germany ).
Frank Scherbaum ML , Member of the Earth Sci-