Nanosciences

  • Prof. Dr. Claus M. Schneider was awarded the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize in 2010.
  • Prof. Dr. Heinz Fissan was appointed Fellow of the Aerosol Society.
  • Europhysics Letters congratulated Prof. Dr. Dietrich Wolf, whose “Growth with Surface Diffusion” publication has been cited over 444 times, making it one of the most cited articles since the journal was first published.
  • The University of Illinois at Chicago honoured Prof. Dr. Hermann Nienhaus as a “Distinguished Guest Speaker”.
  • Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Tegude received the Conference Award 2011 at the “International Conference on Indium Phosphide and Related Materials”.
  • Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth became a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2010 and was awarded the Hamburger Wissenschaftspreis in 2011.
  • Dr. Paul Geller erhielt den Nanowissenschaftspreis 2011 der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Nanotechnologie-Kompetenzzentren Deutschlands (AGeNT-D).
  • Dr. Paul Geller received the Nanosciences Prize in 2011 from the Working group of the Centers of Competence of Nanotechnology in Germany (AGeNT-D).
  • Dr. Frank-J. Meyer zu Heringdorf was awarded the Gottschalk Diederich Baedeker Prize for his outstanding habilitation thesis.
  • The North Rhine-Westphalia Science Minister Schulze conferred the title of “Ort des Fortschritts” (Place of Progress) on the Institute of Energy and Environmental Technology e. V. (IUTA).