Michael Graetzel

Michael Graetzel (2010)

Michael Graetzel (born May 11, 1944 in Dorfchemnitz , Saxony ) is a Swiss chemist of German descent. He is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne and has been named one of the world's 50 leading scientists by Scientific American . From Thomson Reuters he is in four categories ( chemistry , physics , engineering and materials science than) Highly Cited Researcher out.

Life

Grätzel studied chemistry at the Free University of Berlin with a diploma in 1968. From 1969 to 1972 he was a research assistant at the Hahn ‐ Meitner Institute . In 1971 he was at Arnim Henglein with the work of short-lived pulse radiolytical investigation nitrogen-oxygen compounds in aqueous solution in physical chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin PhD . From 1972 to 1974 the Petroleum Research Foundation of the American Chemical Society funded a postdoctoral fellowship with J. Kerry Thomas at the University of Notre Dame in the USA. He then worked again as a research assistant at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin until 1976. In addition, from 1975 until his habilitation in 1976 he was a lecturer in photochemistry and physical chemistry at the Free University of Berlin. From 1977 to 1981 he held a position as Associated Professor of Physical Chemistry at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne. In 1981 he was appointed professor and director of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at EPFL.

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Michael Grätzel played a key role in developing a new type of solar cell , the so-called Grätzel cell . It is claimed that such cells are cheaper to manufacture than traditional silicon-based solar cells and that they perform better, especially in low light. Such cells are now commercially manufactured in small numbers. The efficiency of commercial modules is significantly lower than that of silicon-based solar cells. Michael Graetzel has received a large number of honors and prizes for his research and for his contribution to energy generation from (sun) light and has been a candidate for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for years .

Grätzel is the author of over 1100 publications, two books and the owner of more than 50 patents. According to Google Scholar, his work has already been cited around 290,000 times, with an h-index of over 243 in June 2018 . As of March 2015, with an h-index of 185, it was ranked 13th among the scientists with the highest h-index based on data from Google Scholar.

Awards (selection)

• 1998 - McKinsey Venture award
• 2000 - European Grand Prix for Innovation (Monaco)
• 2001 - Faraday Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry
• 2001 - Havinga Medal from the Havinga Fund Foundation, awarded by the University of Leiden
• 2002 - IBC International Award in Supramolecular Science and Technology
• 2002 - McKinsey Venture award
• 2004 - ENI Italgas Prize in Science and Environment
• 2005 - Heinz Gerischer Award of the European Section of the Electrochemical Society
• 2006 - World Technology Award in Materials (San Francisco, USA)
• 2007 - Prize from the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry
• 2008 - Harvey Prize (Harvey Prize for Science and Technology) from the Technion in Haifa
• 2009 - Balzan Prize Balzan Price for the Science of New Materials
• 2009 - Luigi Galvani Medal of the Italian Chemical Society (Società Chimica Italiana)
• 2010 - Millennium Technology Prize of the Technology Academy Finland
• 2011 - Gutenberg Research Award from the Gutenberg Research College of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
• 2011 - Paul Karrer Gold Medal from the University of Zurich
• 2011 - Wilhelm Exner Medal from the Austrian Trade Association in Vienna
• 2012 - Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2012 from the World Cultural Council (Consejo Cultural Mundial), Mexico
• 2012 - Swisselectric Research Award
• 2013 - Marcel Benoist Prize
• 2014 - Member of the Leopoldina
• 2015 - King Faisal Prize for Science
• 2016 - Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• 2017 - Global Energy Prize
• 2018 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann commemorative coin of the Society of German Chemists
• 2018 - Theodor Förster Memorial Lecture

Web links

• Michael Grätzel at the École Polytechnique Fédérale
• Profile on Google Scholar
• Kai Kupferschmidt : Millennium Prize for the solar cell of tomorrow . In: Zeit Online from June 10, 2010
• Michael Graetzel International Foundation Balzan Prize
• Interview with Michael Grätzel by Christoph Gurk The Chemist, Glass and Photosynthesis in Energiewende-Magazin from April 19, 2017
• About his most important invention: the Grätzel cell on YouTube , accessed on October 6, 2018.

literature

• K. Kalyanasundaram: Curriculum Vitae of Professor Michael Graätzel . In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C . tape 118 , no. 30 , 2014, p. 16309-16310 , doi : 10.1021 / jp504758k .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Scientific American 50: SA 50 Winners and Contributors . In: Scientific American , November 21, 2005. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
2. ^ K. Kalyanasundaram: Curriculum Vitae of Professor Michael Graetzel . In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C . tape 118 , no. 30 , 2014, p. 16309-16310 , doi : 10.1021 / jp504758k .
3. ↑ Highly Cited Researcher . Thomson Reuters website . Retrieved May 20, 2016.
4. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Michael Graetzel at academictree.org, accessed on February 7, 2018.
5. ↑ ^{a b} The next Swiss Nobel Prize winner? . In: Tages-Anzeiger , June 6, 2010. Accessed October 31, 2015.
6. ^ Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces LPI. Prof. Michael Graetzel. Retrieved June 5, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Michael Graetzel . Google Scholar website. Retrieved June 6, 2018.
8. ↑ 669 Highly Cited Researchers (h> 100) according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles . Retrieved October 15, 2015.
9. ↑ 2009 Balzan Prize for Materials Science - Michael Graetzel. International Balzan Prize Foundation, accessed October 7, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Electricity through artificial photosynthesis. July 7, 2011, accessed June 5, 2013 . 
11. ↑ 2011 Paul Karrer Medalist. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 5, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
12. ↑ Michael Graetzel. Retrieved June 5, 2013 . 
13. ^ World Cultural Council Award Winners 2012. Professor Michael Graetzel. Retrieved May 26, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Swiss Electric Research Award 2012. In: TEC21. espazium, November 1, 2012, accessed October 7, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Michael Graetzel awarded the Marcel Benoist Prize 2013. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 6, 2016 ; Retrieved August 30, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Michael Graetzel (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 7, 2016.