Gérard Férey
Gérard Férey (* July 14, 1941 ; † on the night of August 18 to 19, 2017 ) was a French chemist who dealt with physical chemistry of solids and materials science.
Ferey founded the chemistry department at the Institut universitaire de technologie in Le Mans in 1968 and then went to the Université du Maine in Le Mans. In 1977 he received his doctorate from the University of Paris VI . From 1981 to 1996 he was a professor at Le Mans and then at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), where he founded the Lavoisier Institute (supported by the UVSQ and the CNRS ). From 1988 to 1992 he was also director of the chemistry department at CNRS.
Ferey initially dealt with the chemistry of inorganic fluorides . He developed new porous inorganic and hybrid materials with applications, for example, in medicine, petrochemistry, for storing hydrogen in energy technology or for storing carbon dioxide to reduce the greenhouse effect. He combined chemical experiments with digital simulation to predict the properties of porous materials. In 2007 he developed MIL 101 (material from the Lavoisier Institute No. 101) which, with its 3.5 nm pores, can store 400 cubic meters of carbon dioxide at 25 degrees Celsius in one cubic meter, which was a record. In 2007 he and his group developed a substance (trivalent metal dicarboxylates ) that more than quadruples its volume with a solvent and later returns to its original state.
In France, he was one of the founders of the Ambition Chimie initiative , which aims to make chemistry more popular with the public.
Honors and memberships
- Prix de chimie du solide of the Société chimique de France (1983)
- Prix Paul Pascal of the Académie des Sciences (1992)
- Prix de l'Institut français du pétrole of the Académie des sciences (2000)
- Prix Gay-Lussac-Humboldt (2004)
- Prix CNR RAO of the Indian National Academy of Sciences (2005)
- Japanese Chemical Society Grand Prix (2008)
- Prix Catalan-Sabatier of the Royal Spanish Chemical Society (2008)
- Prix ENI for Environmental Sciences for his work on carbon dioxide storage (2009)
- CNRS Gold Medal (2010)
- First Prize of the Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie (2010)
In 2007 he became Vice President of the French Chemical Society. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 1994 , the Académie des sciences since 2003 , was a member of the Institut universitaire de France , Knight of the Legion of Honor , Officer of the Palmes académiques and Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite .
Web links
- Biography at the Academie des Sciences
- Appreciation at the CNRS on the occasion of the gold medal
- Literature by and about Gérard Férey in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ^ French Chemical Society , August 19, 2017
- ↑ Directory of members: Gérard Férey. Academia Europaea, accessed on September 2, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Férey, Gérard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1941 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th August 2017 |