Achim Trebst has received several honors. In 1983, he was elected as member of the Rhenish-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Already since 1974, he has been a member Wortmannin purchase of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina. This institution in Halle, founded in 1652 withstood all attempts of political manipulation and stayed an all-German island during the division of Germany, 1945–1990. Achim helped to ease the results of division of the country by visits, material and academic support. Achim has received honorary doctorate degrees from abroad, the University of Stockholm (1990) and the Purdue University in Lafayette (1991). The Heinrich Heine University

is the first German University to confer an honorary doctorate degree to him. Our faculty is honoring a great scientist and is repaying his abundant support and advice. He has consulted with the faculty in the conception and the organization of the Department of Biology which, we all think, was very well done. He has assisted in nominations and habilitations, and

advised on research projects; he has collaborated and published with colleagues of our faculty. Sincerity and modesty are qualities of his character that make him likable. For many of us he is a model of AZD0156 mouse scientific and human qualities. He is a friend who motivates, encourages, inspires, appreciates, sometimes criticizes and always finds the right words. Acknowledgment The above translation of my text was edited by Govindjee who had invited me to print this Tribute, in Photosynthesis Research, to Achim Trebst at his 80th birthday.”
“The LY2835219 cell line letter to Achim Trebst Dear Professor Trebst, On June 9, about you will celebrate your 80th birthday. On behalf of the Senate and the Presidium as well as the members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, we sincerely congratulate you and wish you all the best for the coming years. The Leopoldina is proud to have counted you as one of the most prominent contemporary scientists

shaping photosynthesis research at the national and international levels. Born in 1929 in Zeitz and raised in Hanau, you completed your Abitur (German university entrance qualification) in 1946 in Büdingen, and then completed a pharmacist internship in Gelnhausen. After your pharmaceutical preliminary examination in 1949, you transferred to the University of Heidelberg and began to study chemistry, joining the research group of Friedrich Weygand, in which you completed your diploma thesis (1953), your doctoral thesis (1955), and your first post-doctoral work (1956), whereupon you moved with the Weygand group from Heidelberg to Tübingen (1953) and from there to Berlin (1955). Together with F. Weygand and Adolf Wacker, you carried out research during this time on the biosynthesis of vitamin B12, folic acid, and purine and pyrimidine nucleotides and on their biosynthetic inhibitors in microorganisms, which led to many acknowledged first publications.