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Jahrbuch 2015 Leopoldina-Jahrbuch 2015 Leopoldina-Jahrbuch Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Jahrbuch 2015 Leopoldina-Jahrbuch 2015 Leopoldina-Jahrbuch Herausgegeben von Jörg Hacker Präsident der Akademie Leopoldina Reihe 3, Jahrgang 61 (2015), Halle (Saale) 2016 Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart Leopoldina-Jahrbuch 2015 Jahrbuch 2015 Leopoldina Reihe 3, Jahrgang 61 Herausgegeben von Jörg Hacker Präsident der Akademie Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, Halle (Saale) 2016 Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart Redaktion: Dr. Michael Kaasch und Dr. Joachim Kaasch Das Jahrbuch erscheint bei der Wissenschaftlichen Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart, Birkenwaldstraße 44, 70191 Stuttgart, Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Das Jahrbuch wird gefördert durch das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung sowie das Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Digitalisierung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt. Bitte zu beachten: Die Leopoldina Reihe 3 bildet bibliographisch die Fortsetzung von: (R. 1) Leopoldina, Amtliches Organ … Heft 1– 58 (Jena etc. 1859 –1922/23) (R. 2) Leopoldina, Berichte … Band 1– 6 (Halle 1926 –1930) Zitiervorschlag: Jahrbuch 2015. Leopoldina (R. 3) 61 (2016) Die Abkürzung ML hinter dem Namen steht für Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften. Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über https://portal.dnb.de abrufbar. © 2016 Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e. V. – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Postadresse: Jägerberg 1, 06108 Halle (Saale), Postfachadresse: 11 05 43, 06019 Halle (Saale) Hausadresse der Redaktion: Emil-Abderhalden-Straße 37, 06108 Halle (Saale) Tel.: +49 345 47 23 91 34, Fax +49 345 47 23 91 39 Herausgeber: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Jörg Hacker, Präsident der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften ISBN: 978-3-8047-3613-9 ISSN: 0949-2364 Printed in Germany 2016 Gesamtherstellung: stm media GmbH + druckhaus köthen GmbH & Co. KG Gedruckt auf chlorfrei gebleichtem Papier. Inhalt Inhalt 1. Personen Präsidium ................................................................................................................... 17 Senat ........................................................................................................................... 19 Sprecher der Klassen ................................................................................................ 23 Ständiger Ausschuss der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften ................... 25 Arbeitsgruppen ......................................................................................................... 27 Additive Fertigung und 3D-Druck – Perspektiven einer neuen Technologie ......... 27 Additive Fertigung/Generative Fertigung ............................................................... 29 Arbeit und psychische Erkrankungen: Eine gesellschaftliche Herausforderung .... 30 Zukunftsreport Wissenschaft – Archäologisches Kulturerbe .................................. 31 Zukunftsreport Wissenschaft – Forschungsatlas Demografischer Wandel ............. 32 Wissenschaftliche und gesellschaftspolitische Bedeutung bevölkerungsweiter Längsschnittstudien ............................................................................................. 33 Big Data – Datenschutz – Privatsphäre .................................................................. 34 Eckpunkte für ein Fortpflanzungsmedizingesetz .................................................... 35 Energiesysteme der Zukunft (Phase 1) ................................................................... 36 Evolutionsbiologie an Universitäten und in Schulen .............................................. 37 Promotionen im Umbruch ....................................................................................... 38 Schutzimpfungen .................................................................................................... 39 Zur Gestaltung der Kommunikation zwischen Wissenschaften, Öffentlichkeit und Medien: Bedeutung, Chancen und Risiken der sozialen Medien (Phase 2) ........... 40 Medizintechnik und Individualisierte Medizin ....................................................... 41 Chancen und Grenzen des Genome Editing / The Opportunities and Limits of Genome Editing .................................................................................................. 43 Fortschritte der molekularen Züchtung und das erwogene nationale Anbauverbot gentechnisch veränderter Pflanzen ................................................ 44 Medizinische Versorgung im Alter – Welche Evidenz brauchen wir? .................... 45 Perspektiven der Quantentechnologien ................................................................... 46 Public Health in Deutschland .................................................................................. 48 Staatsschulden: Ursachen, Wirkungen und Grenzen .............................................. 49 Zur Gesundheitsversorgung von Asylsuchenden .................................................... 50 Palliativversorgung in Deutschland ........................................................................ 51 Mit Sicherheit mehr Sicherheit? Perspektiven der Sicherheitspolitik für die Welt 2035 ............................................................................................................ 53 Leopoldina-Jahrbuch 2015, 5 – 13 (2016) 5 Inhalt Wissenschaftliche Kommissionen Gesundheit .............................................................................................................. 55 Demografischer Wandel .......................................................................................... 56 Digitalisierte Gesellschaft ....................................................................................... 57 Lebenswissenschaften ............................................................................................. 58 Klima und Energie .................................................................................................. 59 Umwelt .................................................................................................................... 60 Wissenschaftsethik .................................................................................................. 61 Wissenschaftssysteme ............................................................................................. 62 Neugewählte Mitglieder ............................................................................................ 65 Michael Amling, Stephan Becker, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Lorenz S. Cederbaum, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Winfried Denk, Michael Detmar, Ulrike Diebold, Nicole Dubilier, Dieter Ebert, Martin Eilers, Bernd Fritzsch, Wolf B. Frommer, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Karl Gegenfurtner, Ulrike Hahn, Martin Hairer, Rupert Handgretinger, Andreas Heinz, Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, Christian Hertweck, Beat Keller, Elisabeth Knust, Eva Kondorosi, Jan O. Korbel, Johannes Lelieveld, Marion Merklein, Franc Meyer, Tobias Moser, Ania Carolina Muntau, Thomas Mussweiler, Stuart Parkin, Tresa M. Pollock, Anita Rauch, Carsten Reinhardt, Heike Riel, Jürgen Ruland, Johanna Stachel, Thomas C. Südhof, Michael Josef Thali, Klement Tockner, Susan Trumbore, Andreas Paul Michael Weber, Ralph Weissleder, Christian Welzel Verstorbene Mitglieder und Ehrenförderer ........................................................... 155 Friedrich L. Bauer, Lothar Berg, Helmut Böhme, Roberto Giuseppe Burgio, Malcolm H. Chisholm, Carl Djerassi, Hans-Jürgen Eichhorn, Robert Fischer, Jacob Karl Frenkel, Wilhelm Hasselbach, Osamu Hayaishi, Johannes Heydenreich, Stefan Hildebrandt, Lothar Jaenicke, Daniel Kastler, Raymond Kern, Heinrich Köle, Dorothea Kuhn, Hubert Markl, Klaus Günther Müntz, Heinrich Nöth, Paul Otte, Dietrich Plester, Gerhard Quinkert, Eberhard Sander, Klaus Sander, Gottfried Schatz, Rudolf Manfred Schmidt, Paul Schölmerich, Alfred Seeger, Peter Sitte, Alois Stacher, Fritz Taege, Udo Taubeneck, Mstislav Vasiljevic Volkov, Ole Wasz-Höckert, Hans F. Zacher Glückwünsche zum 80. Geburtstag ......................................................................... 167 Dietrich Demus, Hans-Joachim Freund, Eberhard Frömter, Gerhard Gottschalk, Klaus Hahlbrock, Renate Hanitzsch, Horst Klinkmann, Fritz Krafft, Hubert Mörl, Gottfried Otto Helmut Naumann, Satoshi Ōmura, John Opitz, Uwe Pörksen, Manfred Regitz, Herbert Roesky, Heinz Schulz, Peter C. Scriba, Pál Venetianer, Peter von Wichert, Klaus Wolff 6 Leopoldina-Jahrbuch 2015, 5 – 13 (2016) Inhalt Auszeichnungen zur Jahresversammlung Laudatio für Herrn Prof. Dr. Herbert Gleiter ML, Karlsruhe, anlässlich der Verleihung der Cothenius-Medaille ............................................. 213 Laudatio für Herrn Prof. Dr. Otto Ludwig Lange ML, Würzburg, anlässlich der Verleihung der Cothenius-Medaille ............................................. 215 Laudatio für Frau Prof. Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier ML, Braunschweig, anlässlich der Verleihung der Carus-Medaille .................................................... 217 Laudatio für Herrn Prof. Dr. Hans Jakob Wörner, Zürich (Schweiz), anlässlich der Verleihung der Carus-Medaille .................................................... 219 Laudatio für Herrn Prof. Dr. Johannes Buchner ML, München, anlässlich der
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