Michel Che

Michel Che (born December 29, 1941 in Lyon - † August 7, 2019 ) was a French chemist ( physical chemistry ). He dealt with catalysis .

Che studied at the University of Lyon and the Ecole Superieur de Chimie Industrielle and received his PhD in 1968 with a dissertation on EPR studies of titanium dioxide in Lyon. He was a post-doctoral student at Princeton University until 1971 , then was at the Institute for Catalysis of the CNRS in Villeurbanne and was professor at the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie) from 1975 .

In 1995 he became a senior member of the Institut de France , where he was Boris Imelik Professor of Surface Reactivity and Catalysis. He was the founding president of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies (EFCATS), which organized the EuropaCAT congresses from 1993. From 2002 to 2004 he was President of the International Association of Catalysis Societies (IACS) and organized its 13th International Congress in Paris (2004).

He pursued an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the mechanisms of catalysis (complex chemistry at interfaces, colloid chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, electrochemistry, geochemistry, solid-state chemistry). In particular, he dealt with heterogeneous catalysis and the role of water in catalysis (title of his Gault Lecture 2004).

In 2008 he received the International Cooperation Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In 2014 he received the Faraday Lecture . The title of the lecture was Relevance of Geochemistry to the Life of a Catalyst: When Fire Meets Water. He was honorary doctor in Krakow, Bucharest and Lisbon and a member of the Leopoldina , the Academia Europaea and the Polska Akademia Umiejętności . In 1972 he received the Van t'Hoff Prize of the Dutch Academy of Sciences , in 1986 and 1998 he was a lecturer at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and in 1997 he received the Pierre and Marie Curie Prize of the French and Polish Chemicals Societies. In 1997 he received the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize and in 1999 the Alexander Joannides Prize of the French Academy of Sciences .

Web links

• University of Paris at the Faraday Prize
• Entry at the Academia Europaea
• Professor Michel Che winner of the RSC 2014 Faraday Lectureship Prize lectures in the School, Cardiff University 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Michel Che (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 3, 2016.
2. ^ Academy of Europe: Che Michel. In: ae-info.org. Academia Europaea , accessed on August 17, 2019 .