CHEMIST

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 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Michael Grätzel is the 422nd most popular chemist (up from 438th in 2019), the 3,569th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,713th in 2019) and the 70th most popular German Chemist.

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  • 51.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Michael Grätzels by language

Over the past year Michael Grätzel has had the most page views in the with 13,626 views, followed by German (13,236), and Chinese (2,912). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (34.37%), Egyptian Arabic (29.50%), and Russian (28.48%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Michael Grätzel ranks 422 out of 602. Before him are Maud Menten, John Tukey, Andrés Manuel del Río, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, and Kathleen Lonsdale. After him are Peter Atkins, Eric Betzig, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Theodor Curtius, Nikolay Beketov, and Roy J. Plunkett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Michael Grätzel ranks 342. Before him are Anthony Heald, Ján Čarnogurský, José Wilker, Jacques-Alain Miller, Élisabeth Roudinesco, and Jeffrey A. Hoffman. After him are Dennis Franz, Nikolai Karachentsov, Enrique Irazoqui, George Baker, Ahmed Chalabi, and Divina Galica.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Michael Grätzel ranks 3,569 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt (1755), Iris Berben (1950), Stanislaus Kobierski (1910), Ingrid Caven (1938), Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden (1625), and Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1675). After him are Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661), Max Lorenz (1901), Johann Jacob Bach (1682), Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1863), Carl Joachim Friedrich (1901), and Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1674).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Michael Grätzel ranks 70. Before him are Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), Friedrich Stromeyer (1776), Hugo Schiff (1834), Ferdinand Reich (1799), Albert Niemann (1834), and Otto Ambros (1901). After him are Theodor Curtius (1857), Walter Noddack (1893), Leonor Michaelis (1875), Heinrich Rose (1795), Johann Schweigger (1779), and Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842).

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