Gerhard Wegner#
| Membership Number: | 1064 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.adwmainz.de/mitglieder/profil/prof-dr-rer-nat-dr-hc-gerhard-wegner.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Professor Emeritus
- 1996 - 2002 Vice president of the Max Planck Society
- 1984 One of the two founders and founding directors of the new Max Planck Institute for Polymer research
- 1974 Professor, Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
- 1973 and 1974 Offer of professorship at the univiersities Hannover and Marburg (declined)
Fields of Scholarship
- Solid-state chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 1985 Otto Bayer Prize
- 1989 Philip Morris Technology Prize
- 1990 Hermann Staudinger Prize
- 1995 Award of the Society of Plastics Engineers
- 1996 Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1998 Conference Victor Gignard der Société Française de Chimie; ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry; Award of the Society for Polymer Science, Japan
- 2000 Doctor honoris causa (Universität of Massachusetts, Lowell)
- 2003 FEMS-European Materials Medal
- 2003 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2004 Doctor honoris causa, University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 2004 Honorary member of the Society of Polymer Science Japan
- 2004 Doctor honoris causa of the Nankai University, China
- 2004 H.F. Medal of the Austrian Research Institute, Vienna
- 2004 Marin Drinov Medal of the Bulgarian Academy of Science
- 2004 Honorary member of the A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis of the Russian Academy of Science
- 2011 Doctor honoris causa, ETH Zurich
- 2014 Honorary Fellow of the Chinese chemical society
