Friedel Sellschop - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Friedel Sellschop held five honorary doctorates.

  • Dr rer nat h.c., Johan Wolfgang von Goethe University of Frankfurt / Main, 1989
  • DSc honoris causa University of Cape Town, 1995
  • DSc honoris causa University of Pretoria, 1996
  • DSc honoris causa University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1997
  • DSc honoris causa University of Stellenbosch, 1998

A selection of his Honours and awards reads as follows.

  • Four Outstanding Young Men of the Year award of the SA Junior Chamber of Commerce (1968)
  • South Africa Medal (gold) of the SA Association for the Advancement of Science (1984)
  • Percy Fox Foundation Award (1986)
  • John F W Herschel Medal (gold) of the Royal Society of South Africa (1987)
  • Ingham Award of the SA Institute of Mechanical Engineering (1988)
  • SA Mine Ventilation Society Award (1989)
  • de Beers Gold Medal of the South African Institute of Physics (1990)
  • Issue of the Zeitschrift fur Physik A336/2 (1990) dedicated as a Festschrift on the occasion of his 60th birthday in 1990
  • Max Planck Research Prize of the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (1992) Citation : For his discovery of the neutrino and his pioneering work in the field of diamond
  • Heraeus Foundation Fellowship held at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (1993)
  • National Award (gold medal) of the Associated Scientific and Technical Societies of South Africa
  • Medal Award of the Diamond Physics Committee (UK) (1994)
  • The Int. Conf. on Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Modern Physics was held in his honour - Luderitz, Namibia (2000).
  • The 9th International Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms - Varenna, Italy June 5–9, 2000 Dedicated in honour of Friedel Sellschop.
  • National Science and Technology Forum Award for Outstanding Contributions in the field of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) over a lifetime (2001)
  • Foundation for Research Development Evaluation status "A"
  • The first award of the Order of the Baobab (Gold), posthumously by President Thabo Mbeki at the Union Buildings (2002) Citation : for exceptional contribution to the field of nuclear physics and for detecting the first naturally occurring neutrino

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