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Michael Grätzel

1944 - Today

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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

Among chemists, Michael Grätzel ranks 438 out of 509Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Michael Grätzel ranks 350Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Michael Grätzel ranks 3,722 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Michael Grätzel ranks 74Before 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).