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  * Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society (1979)
  * Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award (1987)
  * ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1992)
  * Otto Bayer Award (1993)
  * Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis (2000)
  * Havinga Medal (2000)
  * Myron L. Bender & Muriel S. Bender Distinguished Summer Lecturer at Northwestern University (2004)
  * Humboldt Prize (2005)
  * Burckhardt Helferich Prize (2005)
  * August Wilhelm von Hofmann-Denkmünze of the German Chemical Society (2006)
  * ACS Ronald Breslow Award for Achievements in Biomimetic Chemistry (2007)
  *  of the German Chemical Society (2011)
  * Honorary Doctoral Degree, Technion, Haifa (2012)
  * Ernst Hellmut Vits-Preis (2014)
  * Prix Paul Metz by the Institut Grand Ducal, Luxembourg (2014)
  * EFMC Nauta Award for Pharmacochemistry and for outstanding results of scientific research in the field of Medicinal Chemistry (2016)
  * Honorary Membership of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh) (2019)