Awards and Memberships
In 2003, Stetter was honored with the Leeuwenhoek Medal by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, an award given every 10 years to the scientist who has made the most outstanding contributions to the advancement of microbiology.
Professor Stetter is member of the
- Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- American Society of Microbiology (ASM)
- Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Science (IGPP), UCLA
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie (DGHM)
- Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)
- Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte
- Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie (GBCh)
- International Committee on Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB)
- International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology (ICSB)
- International Institute of Biotechnology
- International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (ISSOL)
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie (VAAM)
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