Herbert W. Roesky#
| Membership Number: | 1766 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1997 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/46240.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 Professor Emeritus
- 1985 - 1987 Dean of the Fachbereich Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- 1980 - 2003 Director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- 1973 - 1976 Director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the J.-W.-G. Universität, Frankfurt am Main
- 1971 - 1980 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
- 1970 Universitätsdozent
- 1967 Habilitation Thesis "Chemistry of Substituted Phosphates"
Fields of Scholarship
- homogeneous catalysis
- new materials with main group elements of groups 2, 13, 14 and 19 of the periodical system
- compounds with elements of low oxidation states
Honours and Awards
- 1983 Member of the Academy of Sciences Göttingen
- 1984 Visiting Professor at the University of Auburn, USA
- 1986 Member of the Academy of Scientists "Leopoldina" in Halle/Saale
- 1987 Visiting Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
- 1987 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna
- 1990 Georg-Ernst-Stahl-Medal
- 1990 Dr. Sc. (hon.) Nankai-University, Tienjin, China
- 1990 West Coast Lecturer, USA
- 1991 Member of the Senate of the Academy of Scientists "Leopoldina"
- 1992 Dr. rer. nat. h.c. University Bielefeld
- 1992 Visiting Professor at Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan
- 1994 Dr. sc. chem. h.c. Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
- 1995 Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, USA
- 1995 George and Pauline Watt Centennial Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- 1995 Frontier Lecturer, A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA
- 1995 Dr. h.c. University of Bucharest, Romania
- 1996 Honorary Fellow of the National Indian Academy
- 1997 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1997 Honorary Member of the Materials Research Society of India
- 1999 Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1999 Corresponding Member of the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 2000 Dr. h.c. Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
- 2001 Honorary member of the Chemical Research Society of India
- 1960 Wöhler - Award
- 1970 Dozenten - Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
- 1985 Centenary Lecturer, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1985 Award of the Minister of Sciences in France
- 1986 French Alexander-von-Humboldt-Award
- 1987 Leibniz-Award
- 1990 Alfred-Stock-Memorial Award
- 1994 Manfred and Wolfgang Flad Award
- 1995 Literature Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
- 1997 Carus Medal of Leopoldina
- 1998 Carus Award of the City of Schweinfurt
- 1998 Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie
- 1999 ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry
- 1998 Wilkinson Prize
- 2004 Rao Award of the Chemical Research Society of India
- 2004 ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry
- 2004/2005 Wittig-Grignard-Award, France
- 2009 Prix International Henri Moissan
