Arndt Simon#
| Membership Number: | 929 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Professor Emeritus
- 2010 Emeritus Director and Scientific Member of the MPS at the MPI for Solid State Research
- 1974 - 2010 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart
- 1974 Member of the Max-Planck Society
- 1972 Associate professor at the University of Münster
Fields of Scholarship
- Inorganic chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 1972 Chemistry Award of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 1975 Honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart
- 1985 Wilhelm Klemm Award of the Society of German Chemists
- 1987 Otto Bayer Award
- 1990 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 1998 Dr. rer.nat. h.c. of Technical University Dresden
- 1998 Dr. rer.nat. h.c. of University (TH) Karlsruhe
- 1998 Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2001 Dr. phil. h.c. of Stockholm University
- 2002 Dr. h.c. of Université de Rennes I
- 2004 Sir Nevill Mott Lecture, University of Loughborough
- 2004 Liebig-Denkmünze of the Society of German Chemists
- 2011 Terrae Rarae Award
- 1989 Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (Corresponding Member since 1994)
- 1990 Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 1990 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1992 Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1998 Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1998 Foreign Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- 2003 Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India
