Awards
- Gaede Prize of the German Vacuum Society (1988) - "For the invention of the Low Energy Electron Microscope.""
- Medard W. Welch Award of the American Vacuum Society (1992) - "for his contributions to the fundamental understanding of thin film nucleation and growth and for his invention, development and use of multiple surface characterization techniques to study those thin films."
- Niedersachsenpreis for Science (1994) - "for the development of LEEM and for his thin film research."
- Award of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science’s 141st Committee on Microbeam Analysis (2003) - "for outstanding research on microbeam analysis and contributions to the JSPS 141 Committee."
- BESSY Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation (2004) - "Excellent contributions towards the development of the photoelectron emission microscope (PEEM) as energy, space and time resolved detection system of photoelectrons."
- Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society (2005) - "for contributions to the science of thin-film nucleation and growth, and for the invention of Low Energy Electron Microscope."
- Humboldt Research Prize (2008).
- Doctor Honoris Causa University Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Lublin, Poland (2008).
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