J. Caro, professor of physical chemistry at Leibniz University Hannover has got together with Professor Michael Tsapatsis, University of Minnesota, USA, the Breck Award of the International Zeolite Association. The Breck Award is sponsored by Universal Oil Products (UOP), a company belonging to Honeywell, and named after Donald W. Breck who was a former leading zeolite scientist of Union Carbide Corporation. The Breck Award is administered by the International Zeolite Association, and it is given every three years for the most significant contribution to Molecular Sieve Science and Technology made in the last 3 years. Caro and Tsapatsis have obtained the prize on the Moscow International Zeolite Conference in July 2013 in the presence of almost thousand participants for their pioneering work on novel molecular sieve membranes.
The photo shows from the left: A. Corma, Chairman of the Breck Award Committee, University Valencia, Spain, J. Caro, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, M. Tsapatsis, University of Minnesota, USA, and G. Bellussi, President of the International Zeolite Association, ENI Research, Italy.
