Jean-Michel Savéant
Encyclopedia
Jean-Michel Savéant 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.
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
specialized in electrochemistry
Electrochemistry
Electrochemistry is a branch of chemistry that studies chemical reactions which take place in a solution at the interface of an electron conductor and an ionic conductor , and which involve electron transfer between the electrode and the electrolyte or species in solution.If a chemical reaction is...
. He has been elected member of the French Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research...
in 2000 and foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences
United States National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...
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 electrochemistryElectrochemistry
Electrochemistry is a branch of chemistry that studies chemical reactions which take place in a solution at the interface of an electron conductor and an ionic conductor , and which involve electron transfer between the electrode and the electrolyte or species in solution.If a chemical reaction is...
.
Major contributions
- general theory of coupling between mass transfer and electrochemical reaction stepReaction stepA reaction step of a chemical reaction is defined as: "An elementary reaction, constituting one of the stages of a stepwise reaction in which a reaction intermediate is converted into the next reaction intermediate in the sequence of intermediates between reactants and products"....
- dissociative and associative electron transfer
- proton coupled electron transferProton coupled electron transferProton-coupled electron transfer is a reaction mechanism that is thought to be common in redox reactions. It involves the concerted transfer of an electron and proton to or from a substrate....
- 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 ChemistryRoyal Society of ChemistryThe Royal Society of Chemistry is a learned society in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences." It was formed in 1980 from the merger of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry with a new...
(1983) - Medaglia Luigi Riccoboni (1983)
- Prix Emile Jungfleisch of the Académie des SciencesFrench Academy of SciencesThe French Academy of Sciences is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research...
(1989) - Charles N. Reilley Award (1990)
- Palladium Medal 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 TechnologyCalifornia Institute of TechnologyThe California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
(1988) - Oscar K. Rice Distinguished Lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
(1995) - Nelson Leonard Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThe University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
(1999) - Baker Lecturer at Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
(2002) - Membre de l'Académie des Sciences (2000)
- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of SciencesUnited States National Academy of SciencesThe National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...
of the United States of America (2001).