Gerischer Award

摘要

michaei, gratzel received the 2005 Gerischer Award of the ECS European Section. Pictured (from left to right) are P, kulesza, G. ertl, M, gratzel, and D. kolb. The award was presented this past July, during a special session that took place at the Gerischer Symposium held at the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. Prof. Gratzel is presently a professor and the Director of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. The conference was organized by D. Kolb with help of L. Kibler and C. Duvigneau from the University of Ulm, Germany; and it covered various aspects of modern electrocatalysis. The award ceremony started with a classical music performance by G. Ertl (piano) and L. Kibler (flute), followed by short laudatio given by P. Kulesza (chair of the European Section). The award lecture, delivered by Prof. Gratzel, was on "The Magic World of Nanocrystals, Light Energy Conversion, and Storage with Mesoscopic Oxide Electrodes."