Tom Meyer

Arey distinguished professor of chemistry; director, UNC Energy Frontier Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tom Meyer’s pioneering work on converting sunlight to chemical energy laid much of the groundwork for the fast-moving field now called artificial photosynthesis — the search for technologies that capture and store solar energy. A National Academy member who is one of most highly cited and honored chemists in the world, Meyer returned to the University of North Carolina faculty in 2005 after five years as Associate Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and now focuses on the renewed search for solar fuels. Email: tjmeyer@email.unc.edu. Web: http://www.efrc.unc.edu/index.html.

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