Honours and Awards
Prof. Dr. Wolf Singer
  • 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 - 300 years anniversary of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  • 2000 Keynote lecture 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


  • 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 of Geneva


jochen heym, 28-01-2010