The year 2005 Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize in photochemistry was awarded to Dr. Dario Bassani from the University of Bordeaux (France) for the creativity of his work in the field of photochemical nanosciences. Dario Bassani succeeded to change the photoreactions of molecules by changing their environment through linking them into supramolecular assemblies. This innovative concept led to insights and to supramolecules with new and potentially important properties.

Dr. Dario Bassani receives the 2005 Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize from the hands of Georg Frater, President of the Swiss Chemical Society.

Dario Bassani

Dario Bassani was born in Milano and studied chemistry in Belgium at the University of Louvain. He obtained his PhD at Northwestern University in Chicago in the group of Fred Lewis with whom he worked on elucidating the mechanism of cis-trans photoisomerization of 1-arylpropenes.
From Chicago, Dario Bassani moved first to Basel to the group of Jakob Wirz, and then to Strasbourg to the group of Jean-Marie Lehn. His rich scientific background brought him to be appointed at the University of Bordeaux where he is now "Chargé de recherche CNRS première classe". He pioneered there the new field of photochemical nanosciences. Owing to the combination of supramolecular chemistry and of photochemistry, Dario Bassani achieved to synthesize new molecules with interesting and potentially useful properties.

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