Pierre Braunstein#
| Membership Number: | 2154 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2002 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www-chimie.u-strasbg.fr/%7Elcc/index.html |
Other E-Mail: braunstein 'at' unistra.fr
Present and Previous Positions
- Sept. 2014 - Emeritus Research Director CNRS, Université de Strasbourg
- 2003 - Research Director CNRS, Université de Strasbourg
- 1990 Directeur de recherche CNRS 1ère Classe, ULP Strasbourg
- 1979 Maître de recherche CNRS, ULP Strasbourg
- 1975 Chargé de recherche CNRS, ULP Strasbourg
- 1975 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Technische Universität Munich (Germany) (Prof. E.O. Fischer, Nobel Prize)
- 1972 Attaché de recherche CNRS, ULP Strasbourg
- 1972 Honorary Research Assistant (CNRS/Royal Society), University College London (Prof. Sir R.S. Nyholm)
- 1971 Stagiaire de recherche CNRS, ULP Strasbourg
- 1974 Docteur ès sciences, ULP Strasbourg
- 1971 Docteur-ingénieur, University Louis Pasteur Strasbourg (ULP)
Fields of Scholarship
- Transition elements
- Ligands with delocalized electronic system
- Molecular chemistry
- Carbene complexes
- Metal complexes of functional enolates
- Bimetallics with Silicon ligands
- Polytopic ligands
- Molecular clusters
Honours and Awards
- Award of the Division of Physical Chemstry and Mineral Chemistry of the French Chemical Society 1975
- Prix d'Aumale of the French Institute nominated by the French Academy of Sciences 1983
- Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis 1988
- Médaille d'Argent (Silver Medal) of the CNRS 1989
- Max-Planck Forschungspreis (jointly with H. Vahrenkamp, Germany) 1991
- Elected Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Sciences 1993
- Grand Prix Raymond Beer of the French Chemical Society 1995
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (CChem FRSC) May 1996
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow - TOKYO (Japon) April 1997
- 1st Awardee of the franco-spannish Prize Paul Sabatier - Miguel Catalán between the French Chemical Society and the Royal Spannish Chemical Society 1998
- Grignard - Georg Wittig Prize between the French Chemical Society and the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker 1999
- Otto-Warburg Prize (Germany) 2002
- Elected Corresponding Member of the Saragossa Academy of Sciences (Spain)June 2002
- Elected Member of Academia Europaea 2002
- Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences 2002
- Chini Memorial Lecture (Italian Chemical Society) 2003
- Nyholm Lecture and Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry) 2003
- Grand Prix of the Institut Français du Pétrole of the French Academy of Sciences 2004
- Elected Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2005
- Elected Member of the French Academy of Sciences 2005
- Honorary Professor Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing (China) 2006
- John van Geuns Lecture, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 2007
- Descartes-Huygens Prize (Dutch Academy of Sciences) 2008
- Sacconi Medal and Lecture (Italian Chemical Society) 2013
- International Award of the Japanese Society of Coordination Chemistry 2013
- Award of the International Organic Chemistry Foundation (Kyoto, Japan) 2013
- Grand Prix Pierre Süe of the French Chemical Society 2013
