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Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, a Common card
Krzysztof "Kris" Matyjaszewski is a Polish-American chemist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 59
- Power
- 128
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,700
Power 128 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization, a novel method of polymer synthesis that has revolutionized the way macromolecules are made.
- Matyjaszewski was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2019 for expanding the capabilities of controlled/living polymerizations and developing ATRP, a robust catalytic process for the radical polymerization of monomers.
- He received the prestigious Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2011, the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences in 2015, and the Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie, France in 2020, the National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences in 2023 the Blaise Pascal Medal in Chemistry from the European Academy of Sciences in 2026 and the Gabor A.
Why it is Common
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Text : Wikipedia, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Kuebi = Armin Kübelbeck, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
