Vincenzo Balzani#
| Email: | vincenzo.balzani 'at' unibo.it |
| Membership Number: | 464 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Username: | vbalzani |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor of Chemistry, University of Bologna (Italy), since 1973
- Assistant Professor, University of Bologna, 1963-1968
- Assistant Professor, University of Ferrara, 1968-1969
- Associate Professor, University of Bologna, 1969-1973
Fields of Scholarship
- hotochemistry
- photophysics
- supramolecular chemistry
- electron transfer reactions
- molecular-level devices and machines
- molecular nanotechnology
- photochemical solar energy conversion
Honours and Awards
- Miriam Borsari Medal, University of Bologna, 1960
- Pacific West Coast Inorganic Lectureship, USA and Canada, 1985
- Gold Medal "S. Cannizzaro", Italian Chemical Society, 1988
- Doctorate "Honoris Causa", Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg (CH), 1989
- Franqui Chair, University of Leuven, Belgium, 1991
- Accademia dei Lincei Award in Chemistry, Italy, 1992
- Wenner Gren Distinguished Lectureship, Sweden, 1993
- Ziegler-Natta Lecturer, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Germany, 1994
- Italgas European Prize for Research and Innovation, 1994
- Centenary Lecturer, The Royal Chemical Society (U.K.), 1995-96
- Lee Lecture, University of Chicago, USA, 1995-96
- Blacet Lecture, University of California at Los Angeles, USA, 1998
- Sacconi Lecture, University of Florence, Italy, 1999
- Porter Medal for Photochemistry, 2000
- Prix Franco-Italien de la Société Française de Chimie, 2002
- Upper Rhine Lectureship, France and Germany, 2002
- Premio al Merito, Camera di Commercio, Industria e Agricoltura della Provincia di Forlì-Cesena, 2003 *Ungaretti Lecture, University of Pavia (Italy), 2005
- Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, 2006
- Werdelmann Lecture, University of Essen (Germany), 2006
- Quilico Gold Metal, Organic Division, Italian Chemical Society, 2008
- Premio Alta Qualità delle Città, Bologna, 2008
- Premio Galileo per la letteratura scientifica, 2009
- Honor Professor, East China University of Science and Technology of Shanghai, 2009
- Blaise Pascal Medal , European Academy of Sciences, 2009
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