Reinhard Genzel#
| Membership Number: | 1689 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1995 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/Reinhard-Genzel |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1999 - present Full Professor of Physics University of California Berkeley
- 1986 - present Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
- 1985 - 1986 Full Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
- 1981 - 1985 Associate Professor of Physics and Associate Research Astronomer, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Fields of Scholarship
- Infrared and submillimetre astronomy
- Experimental astrophysics
Honours and Awards
- Since 1988 Honorary Professor Munich University
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1980 – 1982 Miller Research Fellowship
- 1980 Otto Hahn Medal, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- 1984 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
- 1986 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, American Astronomical Society
- 1990 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 2000 De Vaucouleurs Medal, University of Texas
- 2000 Prix Jules Janssen, French Astronomical Society
- 2003 Stern Gerlach Medal for experimental physics, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- 2003 Balzan Prize for Infrared Astronomy
- 2007 Albert Einstein Medal
- 2008 Shaw Prize
- 2009 "Galileo 2000" Prize
- 2011 Karl Schwarzschild Medal, Deutsche Astronomische Gesellschaft
- 2012 Crafoord Prize, Royal Swedish Academy
- 2012 Tycho Brahe Prize, European Astronomical Society
- 2014 Harvey Prize, Technion Institute, Israel
- 2014 Herschel Medal, Royal Astronomical Society
- Member of the US and German Astronomical and Physical Societies
- 1985 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2000 Foreign member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 1998 Foreign member of the Académie des Sciences (Institut de France)
- 2002 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- 2002 Member of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2003 Senior member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 2011 Foreign member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Foreign member of the Royal Society of London
- 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
