HONORS
1986 - 87 Academy Stipend, Volkswagen Foundation
1986 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
1986 - present Several Named Lectures
1989 Hewlett Packard Europhysics Prize, European Physical Society (EPS), with G.G. Lonzarich and H.R. Ott
1989 Humboldt Award for the Promotion of the Scientific Cooperation between France and the Federal Republic of Germany (Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize)
1990 International Prize for New Materials (James C. McGroddy Prize), American Physical Society, with Z. Fisk, H.R. Ott and J.L. Smith
1996 Honorary Professorship, W. Trzebiatowski Institute for Low Temperature and Structure Research (INTiBS), Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Wrocław, Poland
1999 Corresponding Member, Academy of Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
1999 Corresponding Member, Academy of Sciences of Saxony, Leipzig, Germany
2000 IUPAP Magnetism Award, ICM 2000, Recife, Brazil
2000 Honorary Doctorate, University of Augsburg, Germany
2002 Member, The German Academy of Science and Technology (acatec)
2004 Stern-Gerlach Medal, German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, DPG)
2005 Honorary Doctorate, University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2005 Honorary Doctorate, University of Köln, Germany
2005 Order of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany (Das große Verdienstkreuz des Bundesverdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
2006 Bernd T. Matthias Prize for Superconducting Materials, 2006 M2S, Dresden, Germany
2008 Honorary Doctorate, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
2010 Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences
2012 - present Qiushi Distinguished Visiting Professor, ZJU, Hangzhou, China
2012 - present Distinguished Visiting Professor, Institute of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
2015 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
2018 West Lake Friendship Award, Zhejiang Province, China
2020 Fritz London Memorial Prize, LT 29, Sapporo, Japan, with V. Vinokur and Q.-K. Xue