!!Benno Parthier

[Obituary|https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/neues/forschungsnachrichten/forschungsnachrichten-single/newsdetails/trauer-um-benno-parthier], Leibniz Gemeinschaft (in German)\\
[Obituary|https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2019/09/16/nachruf-auf-benno-parthier], (idw) Nachrichten Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (in German)\\
[Obituary|https://www.leopoldina.org/publikationen/detailansicht/publication/gedenkfeier-fuer-den-altpraesidenten-der-leopoldina-prof-benno-parthier] Leopoldina (in German)
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!Curriculum vitae
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__Academic and Professional Career __
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*1998 Age-related retirement as Director of the Institute of Plant Biochemistry of the Leibniz Association (IPB); Retired professor at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 
*1993 Appointed Professor (C4) of Cellular Biochemistry at Halle University (joint appointment with the non-university Institute of Plant Biochemistry), Germany 
*1992 - 1997 Managing Director of the Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) and Head of the Department of Hormone Research, Germany 
*1991 Appointed Founding Director of the Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) in Halle by the Minister of Science and Education of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany 
*1990 Democratically elected as Director of the Institute of the Biochemistry of Plants (IBP) in Halle; approval from the President of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR 
*1975 Appointed Professor of Molecular Biology at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR 
*1968 - 1975 Lecturer in Molecular Biology, training contract with Halle University, GDR 
*1967 - 1990 Head of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Institute of the Biochemistry of Plants at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR 
*1967 Habilitation at Halle University, GDR; venia legendi 
*1966  Research assistant at the Institute of the Biochemistry of Plants at the German Academy of Sciences in Halle, GDR 
*1965 - 1966 Year abroad as scholarship-holder at the Wenner-Gren Institute for Experimental Biology at Stockholm University, Sweden 
*1961 - 1965 Senior assistant at the Botanical Institute of Halle University, GDR 
*1961 Obtained Ph.D. (in botany) at Halle University, GDR 
*1958 - 1961 Assistant at the Institute of General Botany at Halle University, GDR 
*1958  Graduated in biology 
*1952 - 1957 Biology degree studies at Halle University, GDR 
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__Functions in Scientific Societies and Committees (selection) __
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*1998 - 2010 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Beckurts Foundation, Munich, Germany 
*1994 - 1998  Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Botanical Society 
*1994 - 1996 Chairman of the Scientific Commission of the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), and Chair of the Research Committee 
*1991 - 1997 Member of the German Council of Science and Humanities 
*1991 - 1995 Member and Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the German National Academic Foundation  
*1990 - 2003 President of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, re-elected in 1997 (previously: 
*1978 - 1987 Secretary, 1987 - 1990 Vice President of Natural Sciences) 
*1972 - 1980 Member of the Board of the Biological Society of the GDR 
*1969 - 1979 Member of the Board of the Biochemical Society of the GDR  
*1966 - 1975 Member of the Biochemistry Central Working Group of the Research Council of the GDR, then member of the Biochemistry and Technology Central Working Group until 1985 
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__Honours and Awarded Memberships (selection)__  
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*2007 Hans Olaf Henkel Prize (Award for Science Policy) of the Leibniz Association 
*2007 Honorary member of the German Botanical Society 
*2003 Cothenius Medal of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina  
*2002 Honorary doctorate in natural sciences from the Faculty of Biology at the University of Würzburg, Germany 
*2002 Honour goblet from the City of Halle, Germany 
*1998 External member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Crakow, Poland 
*1997 Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, of the Federal Republic of Germany  
*1994 Associate member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities 
*1992  External member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine 
*1992 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg, Austria 
*1991 External member of the Academy of Public Sciences, Erfurt, Germany 
*1990 Member of the Academia Europaea, London, UK 
*1990 Walter Friedrich Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR  
*1989 Corresponding member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Humanities  
*1988 Corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences 
*1982 Corresponding member (full member in 1988) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR 
*1978 Full member of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Germany 
*1974  Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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