Honorary membership is awarded in recognition of special services to the Division as an institution and its goals. This includes commitment to the founding, existence and expansion as well as the strong and long-term promotion of the activities of the Division. Honorary membership includes an award certificate, exemption from annual specialist group contributions and free participation in FGMR Annual Discussion Meetings. Any member of the Division can submit suggestions to the Board for the appointment of honorary members. The suggestions must be made in writing, stating the special services and supported by two other members. The Board decides on the award of honorary membership.
honorary members
2024: Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Prisner
2023: Prof. Dr. Harald Günther
2022: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Wolfgang Lubitz
2022: Prof. Dr. Stefan Berger †
2020: Prof. Dr. hc mult. Tony Keller †
2014: Prof. Dr. Robert Guy Griffin
2010: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Horst Kessler
1998: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Richard R. Ernst †
Prof. Dr. Robert Kosfeld †
Awarded on September 12, 2024, during the FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting in Rostock "...in recognition of his lifelong contributions to the field of magnetic resonance and his commitment to its worldwide community and to the Division in particular. During his many years of research, he shaped the field of magnetic resonance as a global pioneer in the development of pulsed high-field EPR spectrometers, pulse shaping in EPR, and dipolar EPR spectroscopy. Furthermore, he was a pioneer of DNP in solution, at high magnetic fields, and for MR imaging. His numerous groundbreaking developments have revolutionized and unified the entire field of magnetic resonance spectroscopy. As a mentor, he always supported young scientists in their careers. He was an ambassador for scientific exchange and promoted the development of the Division, among other things through his long-term work on the Board and the organization of the 33rd FGMR Annual Meeting in 2011. His His tireless commitment and his indispensable striving towards fair representation and integration of all disciplines of magnetic resonance have played a significant role in the current cohesion of the Division."
Award ceremony on September 21, 2023 during the FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting in Konstanz: "...in recognition of his long-standing commitment to the Division of Magnetic Resonance, his contributions to organo-lithium NMR spectroscopy and for his internationally highly regarded textbook on NMR spectroscopy. His comprehensive and in-depth textbook has given generations of NMR spectroscopists an introduction to a demanding and increasingly extensive field. This book was the result of his successful research on solid-state and solution NMR spectroscopy and is still of great value for undergraduate education today. Harald Günther's qualities as a bridge builder between people and specialist areas were of great benefit to the Division, of which he is one of the founding fathers. As an Assessors on the first Board from 1979 to 1981, as Chair from 1991 to 1993, as editor of the MARS and as an organizer of numerous Conferences and training events, he has not only made a significant contribution to the development of the Division, but also to the development of NMR spectroscopy in Germany."
Award ceremony on September 15, 2022, during the FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting in Karlsruhe: "...in recognition of his decades of support for EPR spectroscopy for the benefit of the Division and the international magnetic resonance community. His fundamental work on biological energy conversion demonstrated the informative value of EPR spectroscopy at the highest level and in a wide variety of ways, extending far beyond the field of magnetic resonance. His excellent work on iron-iron and nickel-iron hydrogenases, as well as on photosynthetic reaction centers, deserves particular mention. With this work, he shed light on two essential areas of energy conversion: the catalytic splitting of water and the activation of molecular hydrogen. The fruits of his work have inspired the Division of Magnetic Resonance for decades, enabled numerous scientific discoveries, and made a decisive contribution to the outstanding position of magnetic resonance in Germany in general and EPR spectroscopy in particular."
Awarded on May 9, 2022 by Profs Jörg Matysik and Burkhard Luy: "...in recognition of his sustained methodological and technical contributions, his long-standing commitment to the Division of Magnetic Resonance and his many decades of outstanding teaching in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. His achievements have made an extraordinary contribution to the understanding of NMR spectroscopy, the interpretation of NMR data and the targeted application of experiments, even by less experienced users, and have thus made a substantial contribution to the dissemination of NMR and the benefits of this diverse technology, even across disciplines. His special achievements are demonstrated above all by his numerous book publications, which make it easier for beginners and experts to practice using the NMR spectrometer, and the detailed collection of NMR parameters in overview works that have already served as a helpful reference work for generations of scientists. The fruits of his work have inspired the Division of Magnetic Resonance for decades, enabled many scientific discoveries and made a decisive contribution to the outstanding position of magnetic resonance in Germany. " (Photo: M. Findeisen, 2009)
Award ceremony on September 8, 2020 by Prof. Dr. Christian Griesinger: "...in recognition of his more than 50 years of pioneering work at Bruker in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance, which transformed what had just been discovered into commercial products for the benefit of science - from noise decoupling to pulse Fourier spectroscopy to superconducting magnets, fully digitized spectrometers, cryo heads and highest field spectrometers. The fruits of his work have inspired the Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Division for decades, enabled many scientific discoveries and made a decisive contribution to the outstanding position of magnetic resonance in Germany." (Photo: C. Griesinger)
Awarded on September 30, 2014 as part of the FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting in Berlin: "...for his outstanding contributions to the field of magnetic resonance. He is the father of dipolar recoupling sequences and established dynamic nuclear polarization in solid-state NMR for applications in biological sciences. His fundamental work on dynamic nuclear polarization required a combination of state-of-the-art NMR and EPR techniques. He has driven dynamic nuclear polarization in the solid to a useful method for approximately 20 years. The investigation of the DNP effect in solids required basic understanding of magnetic resonance phenomena and in addition chemistry to implement the most efficient polarization transfer mechanisms with the least power and with biradicals of the correct geometry and rigidity as well as its instrumental design became commercially available and was adopted by numerous research groups. Bob Griffin has applied his methods to the study of highly relevant biological problems such as amyloids and the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin. He has contributed to educating several excellent scientists, who have a leading role in magnetic resonance in Germany."
Awarded on September 22, 2010 during the FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting in Münster: "...in recognition of his continuous commitment both in the context of the founding and the successful continuation of the Division as well as his diverse national and international services to the field."
Awarded on September 29, 1998 in Obernai during the Franco-German NMR Conference II: "...in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to the development of magnetic resonance over more than three decades, which have made magnetic resonance the most important means of elucidating the structure and dynamics of molecules in solution and in the solid state, in materials science and the life sciences and for imaging in medicine , in particular for the introduction of Fourier transform NMR spectroscopy, multidimensional NMR spectroscopy, the multidimensional imaging experiment of polarization transfer techniques in solution and in the solid state and the systematic investigation of the dynamics of molecules. The Division is thus honoring one of the most outstanding researchers in the natural sciences, who has distinguished himself in the public not only through his scientific contributions, but also through his commitment to magnetic resonance and its instrumental developments as well as through his advocacy for the development of basic research."
Obituary (Harald Günther; MARS 2008, 22)
On December 13, 2007, our founding and honorary member Dr. Robert Kosfeld, emeritus professor of physical chemistry at the University of Duisburg, died after a long, serious illness. Robert Kosfeld came from Iserlohn and studied physics in Bonn. After receiving his doctorate in 1958, he worked as a research assistant at the Physical Chemistry Institute of RWTH Aachen University , where he qualified as a professor in 1967. In 1971 he was appointed scientific advisor and professor, and in 1972 he was appointed associate professor. In 1974 he accepted a call to the chair of physical chemistry at the University of Duisburg. His scientific interests were polymer chemistry and the diverse applications of NMR spectroscopy in this field. In Aachen he set up an efficient NMR laboratory, which, thanks to his activities, soon became known as a center for Conferences and training courses. Here he was a tireless and restless organizer, for whom contact between NMR spectroscopists from a wide variety of fields was always an important concern, including between those active in the field who were separated by the division of Germany. The Aachen colloquia on NMR spectroscopy, often held with international participation, soon became a permanent fixture in the spectroscopists' conference calendar and set important accents for the emerging research field, for example in 1969 for investigations in liquid crystals. Always open to new things, his commitment made it possible for a Bruker device to be used for the first time in the scientific community during a training course in Aachen in 1970 to record C-13 Fourier Transform spectra. He was one of the founders and editors of the monograph series "NMR Spectroscopy - Basic Principles and Progress" and was a member of the Advisory Board of Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry. He was also a driving force in the preparations for the founding of our Division and took part in the first meetings of the "NMR Club" in Frankfurt in 1974. From 1985 to 1990 he was Chair of the Division and, among other things, organized the 1990 Conference held in Todtmoos, at which the merger of NMR spectroscopists from East and West was prepared. Even after his retirement, when illness no longer allowed him to participate actively, he took an active part in the continuation of the Division . Robert Kosfeld has made a lasting contribution to the positive development of NMR spectroscopy in our country at various levels. We will always remember him with gratitude.
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