text: * 1991: Chemistry Prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  * 1995: Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  * 2006: External scientific member of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
  * 2007: Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  * 2009: Member of the Academia Europaea
  * 2010: Liebig Medal
  * 2013: Honorary Doctor of Science, University College London
  * 2018: Foreign Member of the Royal Society
  * 2019: Schrödinger Medal