Jean-Michel Savéant

Jean-Michel Savéant (born September 19, 1933 in Rennes) 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.

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 electrochemistry.^[1]

general theory of coupling between mass transfer and electrochemical reaction step
dissociative and associative electron transfer
proton coupled electron transfer
modified electrodes

Distinguished Fairchild Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (1988)
Oscar K. Rice Distinguished Lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1995)
Nelson Leonard Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999)
Baker Lecturer at Cornell University (2002)^[6]
Membre de l'Académie des Sciences (2000)^[7]
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2001).

Savéant, Jean-Michel (1966), Sur le mécanisme de la réduction électrochimique des aldéhydes et des cétones alpha-substitués, pp. 272 Savéant, Jean-Michel (1966), 2ème thèse : Etude de la polarisation chimique en chronoampérométrie à variation linéaire de potentiel, pp. 268 Savéant, Jean-Michel (2006), Elements of Molecular and Biomolecular Electrochemistry: An Electrochemical Approach to Electron Transfer Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 455, ISBN 9780471445739, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/bookhome/110527847