Vincenzo Balzani#
| Membership Number: | 464 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ciam.unibo.it/photochem/balzani.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1973 Professor of Chemistry, University of Bologna (Italy), since 1973
- 1963 - 1968 Assistant Professor, University of Bologna
- 1968 - 1969 Assistant Professor, University of Ferrara
- 1969 - 1973 Associate Professor, University of Bologna
Fields of Scholarship
- hotochemistry
- supramolecular chemistry
- photophysics
- molecular nanotechnology
- photochemical solar energy conversion
- electron transfer reactions
- molecular-level devices and machines
Honours and Awards
- 1960 Miriam Borsari Medal, University of Bologna
- 1985 Pacific West Coast Inorganic Lectureship, USA and Canada
- 1988 Gold Medal "S. Cannizzaro", Italian Chemical Society
- 1989 Doctorate "Honoris Causa", Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg (CH)
- 1991 Franqui Chair, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1992 Accademia dei Lincei Award in Chemistry, Italy
- 1993 Wenner Gren Distinguished Lectureship, Sweden
- 1994 Ziegler-Natta Lecturer, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Germany
- 1994 Italgas European Prize for Research and Innovation
- 1995 - 1996 Centenary Lecturer, The Royal Chemical Society (U.K.)
- 1995 - 1996 Lee Lecture, University of Chicago
- 1998 Blacet Lecture, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
- 1999 Sacconi Lecture, University of Florence, Italy
- 2000 Porter Medal for Photochemistry
- 2002 Prix Franco-Italien de la Société Française de Chimie
- 2002 Upper Rhine Lectureship, France and Germany
- 2003 Premio al Merito, Camera di Commercio, Industria e Agricoltura della Provincia di Forlì-Cesena
- 2005 Ungaretti Lecture, University of Pavia (Italy)
- 2006 Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana
- 2006 Werdelmann Lecture, University of Essen (Germany)
- 2008 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
