!!!Otto L. Lange
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Otto Lange passed away August 14, 2017.
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__Positions Held__
*1992 Professor emeritus 
*1967 Full Professor, University of Wuerzburg, Department of Botany, Chair of  Botany II; Director of the Botanical Garden in Wuerzburg
*1963  Full Professor, University of Goettingen, Chair of Forest Botany and Forest Genetics; Director of the Forest-Botanical Garden in Hann.Muenden
*1961 "Dozent (lecturer) and Wissenschaftlicher Rat", Technical University of Darmstadt, Institute of Botany
*1953  "Wissenschaftlicher Assistent", University of Goettingen. Institute of Geobotany and Systematics
*1959 University teaching certification "Habilitation", University of Goettingen, subject – botany Thesis: "Investigations on temperature relations and heat resistance of desert and savannah plants in Mauritania". 
*1952 Dr. rer. nat., University of Goettingen. Dissertation: "Heat and desiccation resistance of lichens as related to their distribution".
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
*1967 The "United States Board on Geographical Names" named a 2.435 m high mountain in the Admiralty Range (Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica) "Lange Peak", "in  appreciation of the research on lichen ecology done in 1966/67 by Lg. in Hallett  Station, Antarctica" 
*1974 Antarctic Service Medal, awarded by the United States Government
*1984 Bundesverdienstkreuz I. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Order of Merit 1st class, awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany)
*1986 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), together with Prof. Ulrich Heber, Wuerzburg
*1988 Balzan Prize for "Applied Botany including Ecology" (together with Prof. Michael Evenari, Jerusalem, Israel), presented by the Italian President, Francesco Cossiga in Rome
*1990 Adalbert-Seifriz-Prize for technology transfer  (together with H. Walz, Effeltrich): in appreciation of construction of ecophysiological instrumentation
*1991 Bayerischer Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst in der Abteilung fuer Wissenschaft (Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science  and Art)
*[1992 Acharius Medal of the "International Association for Lichenology" for outstanding contributions to lichenology|http:///www.lichenology.org/Awards/Acharius_Lange.html]
*2007 Award “Eminent Ecologist” by the Ecological Society of American
*1972 Member, "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Leopoldina" (German Academy for Scientists, Leopoldina)
*1976 Corresponding member, "Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Goettingen" (Academy of  Science, Goettingen)
*1978 Member, "Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Muenchen" (Bavarian Academy of Science, Munich)
*1989 Member, "Academia Europaea", London
*1991 Member, "Academia Scientarum et Artium Europaea", Salzburg
*1994 Foreign Honorary Member of the "American Academy of Arts and Sciences", Boston, Mass. USA 
*1972 Member, "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Leopoldina" (German Academy for Scientists, Leopoldina)
*1976 Corresponding member, "Akademie der Wissenschaften zu  Goettingen" (Academy of  Science, Goettingen)
*1978 Member, "Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Muenchen" (Bavarian Academy of Science, Munich)
*1988 Honorary Member "Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaft" (Regensburg Botanical Society)
*1991 Honorary Member "British Lichen Society", London
*1992 Honorary Member "Gesellschaft für Mykologie and Lichenology" (Association for Mycology and Lichenology)
*1993 Honorary Member "Gesellschaft für Ökologie" (Association for Ecology of the German-speaking countries)
*2002 Honorary member “Deutsche Botanaische Gesellschaft", (DBG)(German Botanical Society)
*2007 Eminent Ecologist Award der Ecological Society of America
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Lange_Otto/CV]
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[Publication list|User/Lange_Otto/Publications]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Lange_Otto/Highlight]
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