Honours and Awards
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- Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1972)
- "Austrian Scientist of the Year" (1996)
- Science Award of the City of Vienna
- Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2001)
- Asteroid (48681) Zeilinger named for him to mark his 60th birthday (2005)
- Seventh holder of the Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2006)
- Grand Merit Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2009)
- Wolf Prize in Physics (2010, with Alain Aspect and John Clauser)
- Isaac Newton Medal (Institute of Physics, 2008)
- Gold Medal for Service to the City of Vienna
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Award
- "World Future Award"
- King Faisal Prize
- Lorenz Oken medal of the Society of German Scientists and Physicians
- Erwin Wenzl Prize
- Honorary doctorates from the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Gdańsk
- Pour le Mérite for Arts and Sciences
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Berlin-Brandenburg, Austrian and Slovak Academies of Sciences, the Academia Scientiarum and Sciences Europaea, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the French Academy of Sciences (2009)
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