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Medalla de Honor para Avelino Corma, investigador del CSICMedal of Honor for Avelino Corma, researcher at the CSIC
on December 10, 2004
The researcher of the Higher Council for scientific research (CSIC) Avelino Corma, has been awarded the Medal of Honor to the promotion of research each year granted by the Fundación García Cabrerizo. This distinction recognizes the merits collected by people who have contributed significantly to development to the promotion of invention, and scientific and technical standing in national and international level.
Avelino Corma works on Catalysis covering aspects of synthesis, characterization and reactivity. With this distinction, the Fundación García Cabrerizo acknowledges the fruitful scientific and research activity of Corma, who has published over 600 papers in international journals, has written three books and several revisions.
Corma, who directs the Institute of chemical technology (Joint Center of the CSIC and the Polytechnic University of Valencia) in Valencia, is also author of 80 patents, 36 licensed and six of them in commercial exploitation, which makes the researcher at the CSIC that largest number of patents has been implemented and licensed.
Thanks to his research on catalysts that synthesize and transform the oil derivatives and numerous papers published between 1994 and 2004 derived from such research, Corma ranks number 13 among most cited chemists in the world in the area of chemistry and the most cited Spanish in the area of materialsAccording to a study carried out by the Thomson Institute for scientific information (ISI as its acronym in English).
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