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Jean-Marie Tarascon receives the 2022 CNRS Gold Medal

Jean-Marie Tarascon, Chair of Solid State Chemistry and Energy at the Collège de France, is the recipient of the 2022 CNRS Gold Medal, one of France's highest scientific distinctions.

Jean-Marie Tarascon, Chair of Solid State Chemistry and Energy at the Collège de France, is the recipient of the 2022 CNRS Gold Medal, one of France's highest scientific distinctions.
Jean-Marie Tarascon, Chair of Solid State Chemistry and Energy at the Collège de France, is the recipient of the 2022 CNRS Gold Medal, one of France's highest scientific distinctions.

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Né en 1953 à Marmande dans le Lot-et-Garonne, Jean-Marie Tarascon est un spécialiste de la chimie du solide et d'électrochimie. Membre de l'Académie des sciences depuis 2004, il intègre le Collège de France en 2014. Tout au long de sa carrière, il a su mener de front recherches fondamentales et applications de ses travaux, sans jamais faire de concession à l'excellence scientifique. Directeur du laboratoire Chimie du solide et de l'énergie (CNRS/Collège de France/Sorbonne Université), à…

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Upon being awarded the 2017 CNRS Innovation Medal, Jean-Marie talks about his career and his taste for transmission and collaboration with younger generation researchers. Being a professor at the Collège de France and a specialist of solid-state electrochemistry, he is also the director of the solid-state and energy laboratory (laboratoire Chimie du solide et de l'énergie, a CNRS/Collège de France/Pierre and Marie-Curie University joint research unit). He first started to draw attention to…

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