Jean-Michel Savéant
French chemist
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Jean-Michel Savéant (born September 19, 1933 in Rennes) is a French chemist specialized in electrochemistry. He has been elected member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2000 and foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 2001. He has published in excess of 400 peer-reviewed articles in chemistry literature.
Biography
Jean-Michel Savéant graduated in 1958 and obtained his PhD in 1966 at the École normale supérieure. In 1971 he moved to Paris Diderot University in the Laboratoire d'Électrochimie Moléculaire where he is currently an emeritus professor of electrochemistry.
Major contributions
- general theory of coupling between mass transfer and electrochemical reaction step
- dissociative and associative electron transfer
- proton coupled electron transfer
- modified electrodes
Awards
- Prix Louis Ancel de la Société Chimique de France (1966)
- Médaille d'argent du CNRS (1976)
- Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1983)
- Medaglia Luigi Riccoboni (1983)
- Prix Emile Jungfleisch of the Académie des Sciences (1989)
- Charles N. Reilley Award (1990)
- Olin Palladium Award of the Electrochemical Society (1993)
- Medaglia Luigi Galvani della Società Chimica Italiana (1997)
- Manuel Baizer Award of the Electrochemical Society (2002)
- Bruno Breyer Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (2005)
- Distinguished Fairchild Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (1988)
- Oscar K. Rice Distinguished Lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1995)
- Nelson Leonard Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999)
- Baker Lecturer at Cornell University (2002)
- Membre de l'Académie des Sciences (2000)
- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2001).