Michael Grätzel
Swiss professor (born 1944)
Biography
Michael Grätzel (born 11 May 1944, in Dorfchemnitz, Saxony, Germany) is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic-materials and their optoelectronic applications. He co-invented with Brian O'Regan the Grätzel cell in 1988. Grätzel has been called the "father of artificial photosynthesis".
Grätzel is the author of over 1000 publications, two books and inventor or co-inventor of over 80 patents, he has been the Mary Upton Visiting Professor at Cornell University and a distinguished visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, and is currently a distinguished scientist at King Abdulaziz University. He was an invited professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and Delft University of Technology.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Awards & honours (21)
- Balzan Prize
- Harvey Prize
- King Faisal Prize in Science
- Wilhelm Exner Medal
- Albert Einstein World Award of Science
- Marcel Benoist Prize
- Centenary Prize
- Millennium Technology Prize
- Global Energy Prize
- honorary doctor of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- honorary doctorate of Hasselt University
- Luigi Galvani Medal
- Paracelsus Prize
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal
- Faraday Medal (electrochemistry)
- honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala
- honorary doctor of the University of Turin
- honorary doctorate of Lund University
- Clarivate Citation Laureates
- honorary doctorate from École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
Quick answers about Michael Grätzel
- How old is Michael Grätzel?
- Michael Grätzel is 82 years old (born May 11, 1944).
- When is Michael Grätzel's birthday?
- Michael Grätzel was born on May 11, 1944.
- Where was Michael Grätzel born?
- Michael Grätzel was born in Dorfchemnitz.
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- Michael Grätzel's zodiac sign is Taurus.
- What is Michael Grätzel's nationality?
- Michael Grätzel is a citizen of Switzerland.
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- Michael Grätzel is known as chemist, university teacher.
