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Jean-Marie Tarascon awarded the 2017 CNRS Medal for Innovation

Jean-Marie Tarascon

Jean-Marie Tarascon, Professor of Chemistry of Materials and Energy at the Collège de France, has been named winner of the 2017 CNRS Innovation Medal.

The 2017 CNRS Innovation Medal, which recognizes major technological innovations stemming from scientific research, will be awarded to Professor Jean-Marie Tarascon in Paris on June 15 at a ceremony at the Maison des océans. Alongside him will be the three other winners of this distinction: Raphaèle Herbin, Jean-Pierre Nozières and Jamal Tazi.