!!Herbert Roesky - Curriculum vitae
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__Education and Positions__
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*1961 Diplom Thesis: "Construction of a Thermo-Balance"
*1963 Ph. D. Thesis: "Fluorination Reactions under High Pressure"
*1965 Postdoc with DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware, USA: "Aluminum and Coordination Chemistry"
*1967 Habilitation Thesis "Chemistry of Substituted Phosphates"
*1970 Universitätsdozent
*1971 - 1980 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
*1973 - 1976 Director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the J.-W.-G. Universität, Frankfurt am Main
*1980 - 2003 Director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
*1985 - 1987 Dean of the Fachbereich Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 
*2003 Professor Emeritus
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__MAJOR AWARDS__
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*1960 Wöhler - Award
*1970 Dozenten - Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
*1985 Centenary Lecturer, Royal Society of Chemistry
*1985 Award of the Minister of Sciences in France 
*1986 French Alexander-von-Humboldt-Award
*1987 Leibniz-Award
*1990 Alfred-Stock-Memorial Award
*1994 Manfred and Wolfgang Flad Award
*1995 Literature Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie 
*1997 Carus Medal of Leopoldina
*1998 Carus Award of the City of Schweinfurt 
*1998 Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie
*1999 ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry
*1998 Wilkinson Prize
*2004 Rao Award of the Chemical Research Society of India
*2004 ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry
*2004/2005 Wittig-Grignard-Award, France
*2009 Prix International Henri Moissan
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__HONORS__
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*1983 Member of the Academy of Sciences Göttingen
*1984 Visiting Professor at the University of Auburn, USA
*1986 Member of the Academy of Scientists "Leopoldina" in Halle/Saale
*1987 Visiting Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
*1987 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna
*1990 Georg-Ernst-Stahl-Medal
*1990 Dr. Sc. (hon.) Nankai-University, Tienjin, China
*1990 West Coast Lecturer, USA
*1991 Member of the Senate of the Academy of Scientists "Leopoldina"
*1992 Dr. rer. nat. h.c. University Bielefeld
*1992 Visiting Professor at Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan
*1994 Dr. sc. chem. h.c. Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
*1995 Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, USA
*1995 George and Pauline Watt Centennial Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, USA
*1995 Frontier Lecturer, A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA
*1995 Dr. h.c. University of Bucharest, Romania
*1996 Honorary Fellow of the National Indian Academy
*1997 Member of the Academia Europaea
*1997 Honorary Member of the Materials Research Society of India
*1999 Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
*1999 Corresponding Member of the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
*2000 Dr. h.c. Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
*2001 Honorary member of the Chemical Research Society of India
*2002 Associé étranger de l'Académie des Sciences, France
*2002 Member to the European Academy of Sciences, Brussels
*2003 President of the Academy of Sciences, University of Göttingen
*2003 Member of the Leibniz-Sozietät, Berlin
*2004 Member of the Senate of "Leopoldina"
*2004 Associate Fellow of TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences), an institution of the UNO)
*2004 Member of the Selection Committee of TWAS
*2004 Honorary Professor of Southern University, Changsha, China
*2004 Member of the European Academy of Science and Arts, Austria
*2004 Member of ICMGC Council Wroclaw, Poland
*2004 Adjunct Professor of Northern Illinois University, deKalb, USA
*2004 Corresponding Member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
*2005 Doctor honoris causa, University of Columbia, Missouri, USA
*2005 Honorary Professor, University of Beijing, China
*2005 Doctor honoris causa, Université Bordeaux, France
*2006 Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay, India
*2007 East-Chem Lectureship, Great Britain
*2007 Nenitzescu-Criegge Lecturer, Romania
*2007 Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, Romania
*2009 Adjunct Professor of  Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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__HONORARY ACTIVITIES__
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*1973 - 1984 Referee for Inorganic Chemistry,Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
*1976 - 1980 Trustee of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie in Frankfurt am Main
*1982 - 1997 Trustee  of the "Fonds der Chemischen Industrie" in Göttingen
*1989 - 1995 Member of the Board of the "Engere Kuratorium des Fonds der Chemischen Industrie"
*1975 President of the local section Frankfurt of the GDCh (German Chemical Society)
*1982 - 1987 President of the branch "Chemical Education" of the GDCh
*1988 - 1995 Member of the Executive Board of the GDCh
*1986 - 1991 Member of the Scientific Board of the "Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte"
*1988 - 1990 President of the Section Chemistry of the "Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte"
*1987 - 1990 Member of the Scientific Board of Deutsches Museum in München
*1989 - Present Member of the Scientific Board of "Chemisches Institut Dr. Flad" in Stuttgart
*1987 - 1995 Member of the Scientific Board of "Chem Inform"
*1990 - Present Member of the Board of the Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
*1991 – 1993 President of ADUC
*1992 President of the European Selection Committee of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
*1995 Vice President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
*1996 President of the Wöhler-Vereinigung of Inorganic Chemistry
*2002 - 2008 President of the Akademie der Wissenschaften, Göttingen
*2008 Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
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__EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES__
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*Inorganic Syntheses
*Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon
*Journal of Fluorine Chemistry
*European Journal of Solid State and Inorganic Chemistry
*Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie
*Akademie Journal
*Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France
*Heterocyclic Communications
*International Council on Main Group Chemistry
*Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal Chemical Society
*Dalton Transactions
*Main Group Chemistry
*Polyhedron
*European Chemistry Chronicle
*Inorganic Chemistry
*Georgia Augusta, Universitätsbund Göttingen
*Science and Society, Polish Academy of Sciences
*Organometallics
*Main Group Metal Chemistry
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More than 1100 research publications, articles, patents and  6 books