:Jean-Michel Savéant

Born in Rennes, 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 where he founded the Laboratoire d'Électrochimie Moléculaire. He was an emeritus professor of electrochemistry in this university as well as an emeritus CNRS Research Director. He was the author of over 500 publications.{{Cite journal|last1=Costentin|first1=Cyrille|last2=Limoges|first2=Benoît|last3=Robert|first3=Marc|last4=Tard|first4=Cédric|date=2021-02-26|title=A Pioneering Career in Electrochemistry: Jean-Michel Savéant|url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03224397/file/JMS%20Career-MS.pdf|journal=ACS Catalysis|volume=11 |issue=6 |language=en|pages=3224–3238|doi=10.1021/acscatal.0c05632|s2cid=233960570 |issn=2155-5435}}

Jean-Michel Savéant’s scientific activity is outlined by the foundation and development of a new discipline - molecular electrochemistry. Molecular electrochemistry has transferred the knowledge acquired by electrochemistry towards various fields of chemistry and biochemistry, in particular towards the chemistry of electron and proton transfer, free radical chemistry, chemical reactivity theory, coordination chemistry, photochemistry, solid physico-chemistry, enzymology and catalytic activation of small molecules, especially those involved in solving contemporary energy challenges.

• Prix Louis Ancel de la Société Chimique de France (1966)
• Médaille d'argent du CNRS (1976)
• Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1983)
• Medaglia Luigi Riccoboni (1983)
• Prix Emile Jungfleisch of the Académie des Sciences (1989)
• Charles N. Reilley Award (1990)[http://electroanalytical.org/awards.html#previous Charles N. Reilley award recipicents]
• Olin Palladium Award of the Electrochemical Society (1993)[http://www.electrochem.org/awards/ecs/recipients/olin_palladium_recipients.htm Olin Palladium award recipients]
• Medaglia Luigi Galvani della Società Chimica Italiana (1997)
• Manuel Baizer Award of the Electrochemical Society (2002){{Cite web |url=http://www.electrochem.org/awards/division/recipients/obe_baizer_recipients.htm |title=Manuel M. Baizer award recipients |access-date=2009-05-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214102858/http://www.electrochem.org/awards/division/recipients/obe_baizer_recipients.htm |archive-date=2012-02-14 |url-status=dead }}
• Bruno Breyer Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (2005){{Cite web |url=http://edaq.com/EDRACI-OLD/meetings.html |title=Bruno Breyer medal recipicents |access-date=2009-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090906113453/http://edaq.com/EDRACI-OLD/meetings.html |archive-date=2009-09-06 |url-status=dead }}
• 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)[http://www.chem.cornell.edu/seminars/BakerLecturerList.pdf George Fisher Baker non-resident lecturers]
• Membre de l'Académie des Sciences (2000){{Cite web |url=http://www.academie-sciences.fr/membres/S/Saveant_JM.htm |title=Académie des Sciences member |access-date=2010-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220081642/http://www.academie-sciences.fr/membres/S/Saveant_JM.htm |archive-date=2010-02-20 |url-status=dead }}
• Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2001).
• Air Liquide Essential Molecules Challenge (2016)[https://www.airliquide.com/media/air-liquide-announces-winners-essential-molecules-challenge Air Liquide announces the winners of the “Essential Molecules Challenge”]

• {{Citation | last = Savéant | first = Jean-Michel | title = Sur le mécanisme de la réduction électrochimique des aldéhydes et des cétones alpha-substitués | year = 1966 | pages =272 }}
• {{Citation | last = Savéant | first = Jean-Michel | title = 2ème thèse : Etude de la polarisation chimique en chronoampérométrie à variation linéaire de potentiel | year = 1966 | pages =268}}
• {{Citation | last = Savéant | first = Jean-Michel | title = Elements of Molecular and Biomolecular Electrochemistry: An Electrochemical Approach to Electron Transfer Chemistry | publisher = John Wiley & Sons | year = 2006 | pages =455| doi = 10.1002/0471758078 | isbn = 978-0-471-44573-9}}
• {{Citation | last1 = Savéant | first1 = Jean-Michel | last2 = Costentin| first2 = Cyrille | title = Elements of Molecular and Biomolecular Electrochemistry: An Electrochemical Approach to Electron Transfer Chemistry | publisher = John Wiley & Sons | year = 2019 | edition = 2 | pages =616| doi = 10.1002/9781119292364 | isbn = 9781119292333| s2cid = 242109414 }}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090609010645/http://www.lemp7.cnrs.fr/index_en.htm Laboratoire d'Électrochimie Moléculaire]
• [http://www.lemp7.cnrs.fr/annuaires/FICHES/saveant_list.pdf List of Publications (1958-to present)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240115064402/http://www.lemp7.cnrs.fr/annuaires/FICHES/saveant_list.pdf |date=2024-01-15 }}

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