# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-gratzel
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:19:21.909Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-gratzel"
name: "Michael Grätzel"
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description: "Michael Grätzel is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic-materials and their optoelectronic applications. He co-invented with Brian O'Regan the Grätzel cell in 1988. Grätzel has been called the \"father of artificial photosynthesis\"."
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birthDate: "1944-05-11"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump