Honors
Gentner was a member of many scientific academies and was awarded a number of honors:
- Cothenius-Medaille in Gold – Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- Ernst-Helmut-Vits-Preis
- Großen Verdienstkreuz mit Stern der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
- Officier de la Légion d'honneur (Officer of the Legion of Honor, France)
- Ordens Pour le merite für Wissenschaft und Künste
- Otto Hahn-Preis der Stadt Frankfurt (Otto Hahn Prize of the City of Frankfurt)
- Wolfgang Gentner Chair established at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Israel.
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