Honors and Awards
Honors
1989
Lambert Lecture, American Society for Neuroscience, Phoenix
1990
Brooks Lecture, Harvard
1991
Lamport Lecture, Seattle
1993
F.C. Donders Lectures on Cognitive Neuroscience, Nijmegen
1996
Hebb Lecture, Halifax
1997
NIH Presidential Lecture, Washington
1999
Macallum Lecture, Toronto
1999
Vernon B. Mountcastle Lecture, Baltimore
2000
Keynote lecture at the 300-year anniversary of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
2000
Keynote lecture "Perceiving, Remembering, Forgetting" at the Historikertag, Aachen
2001
TINS Lecture, Harrogate
2001
Otto von Guericke Lecture, Magdeburg
2002
Cajal Lecture, Madrid
2002
Servier Lecture, Montreal
2002
Swammerdam Lecture, Amsterdam
2003
"dies academicus", Ulm
2004
Talairach Lecture, Budapest
2005
CNBC Annual Special Lecture, Pittsburgh
2005
Festvortrag MPG Hauptversammlung Rostock
2005
Jakob-Burckhardt-Gespräche auf Castelen/Basel
2006
Karl von Frisch Lecture, Wien
2008
Commencement Speech, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2009
Leopoldina Lecture, Halle
2010
Goethe Institute Moscow, Lecture Series
2011
Höllerer Lecture
2012
New Year's Speech, Frankfurt Römer
2013
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers, Frankfurt Römer
2013
Heller Lecture, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
| Awards | |
| 1991 | Prize of the IPSEN Foundation (shared with Thorsten Wiesel and Ursula Bellugi) |
| 1994 | Ernst Jung Prize for Science and Research |
| 1994 | Zülch Prize |
| 1998 | Hessischer Kulturpreis |
| 2000 | Körber Prize for the European Sciences |
| 2001 | Max Planck Prize for Public Science |
| 2002 | La Medaille de la Ville de Paris |
| 2002 | Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur |
| 2002 | Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize, University Münster |
| 2003 | Krieg Cortical Discoverer Award of the Cajal Club |
| 2003 | Betty und David Koetser Prize, University Zürich |
| 2003 | Communicator Prize, German Research Foundation |
| 2003 | Hans Berger Prize, Society for Clinical Neurophysiology |
| 2005 | Dr. honoris causa University Oldenburg |
| 2005 | Aschoff Prize, University Freiburg |
| 2006 | INNS Hebb Award |
| 2008 | Dr. honoris causa Rutgers University, NJ |
| 2009 | Kaloy Prize, University Geneva |
| 2011 | Order of Merit (First Class) of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 2013 | Cothenius-Medaille, Leopoldina |
| 2014 | Max-Planck-Medaille |
| 2015 | Max Planck Communitas Award |
| 2015 | Ehrenplakette der Stadt Frankfurt am Main |