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Honorary members of the DGfI

1973
Prof. Dr. Hans Schmidt † 1975

1983
Prof. Dr. Michael Heidelberger † 1991
Prof. Dr. Otto Westphal † 2004

1986
Prof. Dr. Paul Kallós † 1988
Prof. Dr.med. P. Klein † 1998

1991
Prof. Dr. Michael Sela

1993
Prof. Dr. Hans Gerhard Schwick † 2015

1994
Prof. Dr. Klaus Rother † 2016

1995
Prof. Dr. Brigitta A. Askonas † 2015
Prof. Dr. Walter H. Hitzig † 2012
Sir Gustav Nossal, MD, PhD

1996
Prof. Dr. Nicholas Avrion Mitchison
Prof. Dr. Hans J. Müller-Eberhard † 1998

1997
Prof. Dr. Eberhard Wecker † 2013

1998
Prof. Dr. Rolf Zinkernagel
Prof. Dr. Alain de Weck † 2013

1999
Prof. Dr. Jacques F.A.P. Miller
Prof. Dr. Stuart F. Schlossman

2000
Prof. Dr. Herwart Ambrosius

2001
Prof. Dr. Fritz Melchers
Prof. Dr. Gert Riethmüller

2002
Prof. Dr. Klaus Eichmann
Prof. Dr. Joachim R. Kalden

2003
Dr. Friedrich R. Seiler † 2015

2004
Prof. Dr. Walter Knapp † 2004

2005
Prof. Dr. Martin Röllinghoff
Prof. Dr. Takehiko Sasazuki
Prof. Dr. Hermann Wagner

2007
Prof. Dr. Foo Yoo Liew 

2008
Prof. Dr. Stefan H.E. Kaufmann

2009
Prof. Dr. Michel D. Kazatchkine

2011
Prof. Dr. Hans-Hartmut Peter

2012
Prof. Dr. Andreas Radbruch

2017
Prof. Dr. Klaus Rajewsky
Prof. Dr. Reinhold E. Schmidt

2019
Prof. Dr. Stefan Meuer

Holders of the DGfI Honorary Medal

2002
Prof. Dr. Diethard Gemsa
Dr. Kay Grossmann

2005
Prof. Dr. Holger Kirchner

2007
Gabriele Gründl

2008
Prof. Dr. Michael Seyfarth

2012
Prof. Dr. Werner Solbach

2019
Prof. Dr. Michael Kirschfink

 

Medal of honour of the DGfI, based on a design by the Berlin medalist Wilfried Fitzenreiter

 

 

 

 

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