Benno Parthier#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 885 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/mitglieder/parthierb |
Benno Parthier passed away August 25, 2019.
Positions Held
- 1998 Director Emeritus of the Institute of Plant Biochemistry of the Leibniz Association (IPB); Retired professor at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
- 1993 Appointed Professor (C4) of Cellular Biochemistry at Halle University (joint appointment with the non-university Institute of Plant Biochemistry), Germany
- 1992 - 1997 Managing Director of the Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) and Head of the Department of Hormone Research, Germany
- 1991 Appointed Founding Director of the Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) in Halle by the Minister of Science and Education of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular biology
- Cell biochemistry
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Hans Olaf Henkel Prize (Award for Science Policy) of the Leibniz Association
- 2007 Honorary member of the German Botanical Society
- 2003 Cothenius Medal of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2002 Honorary doctorate in natural sciences from the Faculty of Biology at the University of Würzburg, Germany
- 2002 Honour goblet from the City of Halle, Germany
- 1998 External member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Crakow, Poland
- 1997 Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1994 Associate member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 1992 External member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
- 1992 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg, Austria
- 1991 External member of the Academy of Public Sciences, Erfurt, Germany
- 1990 Member of the Academia Europaea, London, UK
- 1990 Walter Friedrich Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
- 1989 Corresponding member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 1988 Corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 1982 Corresponding member (full member in 1988) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
- 1978 Full member of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Germany
- 1974 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
