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Intervista al prof gerard ferey eni award 2009
Gérard Férey is a French chemist, born the 14th of July 1941, member of the French Academy of Sciences, teacher at the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University. He is specialized in the physical chemistry of solids and materials. He focuses on the crystal chemistry of inorganic fluorides and on porous solids. He is a member of the Fondation Ecologie d'Avenir since 2011.
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- Intervista al prof gerard ferey eni award 2009
- Interview to prof gerard ferey eni award 2009
- History
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In September 2010, he received the CNRS Gold medal, the highest French scientific distinction.
Interview to prof gerard ferey eni award 2009
History
Gerard Férey was a lecturer at the University of Maine. In 1968, he founded the Department of Chemistry at the University Institutes of Technology of Le Mans. He argued his doctoral thesis at the Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in 1977.
He was a teacher at the University of Maine from 1981 to 1996 and the at the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University since that date, where he founded the Lavoisier Institute. From 1988 to 1992 he was deputy director of the Department of Chemistry at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences the 18th of November 2003. In 2007, he was Vice-President of the Société Chimique de France. He is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is also at the initiative of the Chemistry Ambition, a group that includes seven players in chemistry of France aimed at enhancing the image of the discipline to the public.