Gerhard Ertl - Curriculum Vitae#

• 2004-now Professor emeritus, Dept. of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin
• 1986-2004 Director, Dept. of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin
• 1981-1982 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
• 1979 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• 1976-1977 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
• 1973-1986 Professor & Director, Inst. for Physical Chemistry, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
• 1968-1973 Professor & Director, Inst. for Physical Chemistry, Technical University, Hannover (presently Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University)
• 1965-1968 Assistant & Lecturer, Technical University, Munich
• 1962-1965 Technical University, Munich: Dr. rer. nat in 1965
• 1959-1961 Technical University, Stuttgart: Dipl. Phys. in 1961
• 1958-1959 Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
• 1957-1958 University of Paris
• 1955-1957 Technical University, Stuttgart
• 1936 born October 10, in Stuttgart, Germany

• 2010 Member, Pontificia Academia Scientiarium
• 2010 Foreign Member, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• 2009 Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences
• 2009 Honorary Member, Technische Universität Berlin
• 2009 Honorary Member, Deutscher Hochschulverband
• 2008 Honorary Member, Dechema (German Society of Chemical Technology)
• 2008 Honorary Member, GDCh (German Chemical Society)
• 2008 Honorary Member, Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
• 2008 Honorary Member, European Academy of Sciences and Art
• 2008 Honorary Member, Physikalischer Verein, Frankfurt a.M.
• 2007 Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
• 2006 Honorary Member, Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie
• 2002 Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences
• 2001 Corresponding Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 1998 Corresponding Member, Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• 1993 Member, Berlin-Brandenburg, Academy of Sciences
• 1993 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1993 Corresponding Member, Nordrhein.-Westfal. Academy of Sciences
• 1992 Member, Academia Europaea
• 1986 Corresponding Member, Scientific Society of Braunschweig
• 1986 Member, German Academy of Sciences, "Leopoldina"
• 1985 Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh

• 2009 Bohlmann Lecture, Technische Universität Berlin
• 2009 Dr. honoris causa, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin
• 2009 Dr. honoris causa, Comenius University, Bratislava
• 2009 Dr. honoris causa, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 2008 Diesel Gold Medal, Deutsches Institut für Erfindungswesen
• 2008 Nicolaus Copernicus Medal, Polish Academy of Sciences
• 2008 Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stern, President of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2008 Dr. honoris causa, Technische Universität München
• 2008 Dr. honoris causa, Queen’s University Belfast
• 2008 Verdienstmedaille, Land Baden-Württemberg
• 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, The Nobel Prize Foundation
• 2007 Otto-Hahn-Preis, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, & the City of Frankfurt/M
• 2007 Gold Medal, Slovak Chemical Society
• 2007 Baker Lectureship, Cornell University, Ithaca (NY)
• 2007 Faraday Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry
• 2006 Guptill Lecture, Dalhousie University, Halifax
• 2005 Angström Lecture, University of Uppsala
• 2005 Linus Pauling Lecture, California Institute of Technology
• 2003 Dr. honoris causa, University of Aarhus
• 2003 Dr. honoris causa, Chalmers University of Technology, Goeteborg
• 2003 Dr. honoris causa, University of Leuven
• 2002 FMC Lectureship, Princeton University
• 2002 Karl Ziegler Visiting Professor, Max Planck Institute Mulheim
• 2002 Spiers Memorial Medal and Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry
• 2001 G.F. Smith Lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana
• 2001 Kelly Lecture, Purdue University
• 2001 Schuit Lecture, Technical University of Eindhoven
• 2001 Pitzer Lecture, University of California, Berkeley
• 2000 Dr. honoris causa, University of Münster
• 1999 Roessler Lectureship, Cornell University
• 1999 Le Bel Lecture, Université de Strasbourg
• 1999 Debye Lecture, Universiteit Utrecht
• 1998 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Wolf Foundation
• 1998 Karl Ziegler Prize, German Chemical Society
• 1998 Francois Gault Lectureship, European Catalysis Society
• 1998 M. Curie Lectureship, Polish Chemical Society
• 1997 Laird Lecture, University of British Columbia
• 1997 A.D. Little Lectureship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 1996 Honorary Professor, Humboldt University Berlin
• 1996 Carl Engler Medal, German Scientific Society for Coal and Petroleum Research (DGMK)
• 1996 Merck Lecture, Rutgers University
• 1996 Brdicka Lecture, Czech Academy of Sciences
• 1995 Medard W. Welch Award, American Vacuum Society
• 1995 Stauffer Lecture, University of Southern California
• 1994 Rolf Sammet Visiting Professor, University of Frankfurt
• 1992 Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize, European Physical Society
• 1992 Japan Prize, Science and Technology Foundation of Japan
• 1992 Bunsen Medal, German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry
• 1992 Dr. Honoris Causa, Ruhr-University of Bochum
• 1992 Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz, President of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1992 Kolthoff Lectureship, University of Minnesota
• 1992 Kaufman Memorial Lecture, University of Pittsburgh
• 1991 Leibniz Prize, German Science Foundation
• 1991 Bourke Medal and Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry
• 1990 Alwin Mittasch Medal, German Federation of Chemical Engineers (DECHEMA)
• 1990 Dow Lectureship, University of Western Ontario
• 1990 Coover Lecture, Iowa State University
• 1989 Frontiers in Chemical Research Lectureship, Texas A&M University
• 1988 William Draper Harkins Lecture, University of Chicago
• 1988 Barre Lecture, University of Montreal
• 1987 Liebig Medal, German Chemical Society
• 1986 Honorary Professor, Free University of Berlin
• 1986 Honorary Professor, Technical University of Berlin
• 1986 Langmuir Lecture, American Chemical Society
• 1985 C.F. Gauss Medal, Scientific Society of Braunschweig
• 1985 Centenary Medal and Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry
• 1985 C.G.A. Schuit Lecture, University of Delaware
• 1984 FECS Lecture, Federation of European Chemical Societies
• 1984 Industry Lecture, Norwegian Chemical Society
• 1979 Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis, American Catalysis Society
• 1979 E.W. Müller Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• 1977 Frank Ciapetta National Lectureship, American Catalysis Society
• 1976 Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of Technology

• 2009 Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award (German Physical Society)
• 2008 Gerhard Ertl Building (Faculty of Chemistry & Pharmacy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
• 2008 Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award (jointly instituted by FHI, FUB, HUB, TUB)
• 2008 Integrierte Gesamtschule Gerhard Ertl, Sprendlingen/Rheinhessen
• 2008 Ehrenmitglied, Berliner Oratorien-Chor
• 2008 Ertl Center for Electrochemistry and Catalysis (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, S. Korea)
• 2010 1st Ertl Symposium on Electrochemistry and Catalysis