1944 - Today
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.Graetzel 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Grätzel has received more than 116,544 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Michael Grätzel is the 438th most popular chemist (up from 446th in 2019), the 3,722nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,629th in 2019) and the 74th most popular German Chemist.
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Among chemists, Michael Grätzel ranks 438 out of 509. Before him are Arthur Aikin, Walter Noddack, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Luis E. Miramontes, Archibald Scott Couper, and Jacques-Louis Soret. After him are Ferdinand Reich, Anna Sundström, Peter Woulfe, Alfred Stock, Johan Kjeldahl, and Pierre Adet.
1773 - 1854
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 432
1893 - 1960
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 433
1838 - 1921
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 434
1925 - 2004
HPI: 48.91
Rank: 435
1831 - 1892
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 436
1827 - 1890
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 437
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 438
1799 - 1882
HPI: 48.67
Rank: 439
1785 - 1871
HPI: 48.65
Rank: 440
1727 - 1803
HPI: 48.63
Rank: 441
1876 - 1946
HPI: 48.63
Rank: 442
1849 - 1900
HPI: 48.43
Rank: 443
1763 - 1834
HPI: 48.38
Rank: 444
Among people born in 1944, Michael Grätzel ranks 350. Before him are Moe Tucker, Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, Alain Souchon, S. Robson Walton, Daniel Duval, and Yitzhak Mordechai. After him are Divina Galica, Michel Maffesoli, Sandra Faber, Élisabeth Roudinesco, Gene Clark, and Pedro Barreto.
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.98
Rank: 344
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 345
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 346
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 347
1944 - 2013
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 348
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 349
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 350
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.69
Rank: 351
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.65
Rank: 352
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.60
Rank: 353
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.57
Rank: 354
1944 - 1991
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 355
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.53
Rank: 356
Among people born in Germany, Michael Grätzel ranks 3,722 out of 6,142. Before him are Christian Rohlfs (1849), Bruno Apitz (1900), Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau (1682), Gustav Mie (1868), Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), and Rüdiger Safranski (1945). After him are Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal (1730), Karl Bartos (1952), Leopold I, Prince of Lippe (1767), Norbert Lammert (1948), Andreas Krieger (1965), and Jörg Meuthen (1961).
1849 - 1938
HPI: 48.76
Rank: 3,716
1900 - 1979
HPI: 48.76
Rank: 3,717
1682 - 1750
HPI: 48.76
Rank: 3,718
1868 - 1957
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 3,719
1826 - 1899
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 3,720
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 3,721
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 3,722
1730 - 1801
HPI: 48.74
Rank: 3,723
1952 - Present
HPI: 48.74
Rank: 3,724
1767 - 1802
HPI: 48.74
Rank: 3,725
1948 - Present
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 3,726
1965 - Present
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 3,727
1961 - Present
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 3,728
Among chemists born in Germany, Michael Grätzel ranks 74. Before him are Otto Ambros (1901), Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Adolph Frank (1834), Albert Niemann (1834), Johann Schweigger (1779), and Walter Noddack (1893). After him are Ferdinand Reich (1799), Hugo Schiff (1834), Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1834), Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), Ludwig Mond (1839), and Carl Jacob Löwig (1803).
1901 - 1990
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 68
1853 - 1923
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 69
1834 - 1916
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 70
1834 - 1861
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 71
1779 - 1857
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 72
1893 - 1960
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 73
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 74
1799 - 1882
HPI: 48.67
Rank: 75
1834 - 1915
HPI: 48.27
Rank: 76
1834 - 1898
HPI: 48.14
Rank: 77
1818 - 1897
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 78
1839 - 1909
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 79
1803 - 1890
HPI: 47.70
Rank: 80