克日什托夫·马蒂亚谢夫斯基1950—

马蒂亚谢夫斯基是原子转移自由基聚合（ATRP）的发现者之一，2011年荣获沃尔夫化学奖、2017年与泽本光男同获富兰克林奖章。

生平

他1950年出生于波兰罗兹省康斯坦丁努夫。1985年在波兰罗兹科技大学取得博士学位，1984－1985年期间曾在法国国家科学研究中心工作了两年，后赴美国卡内基梅隆大学，并于1995年成为卡内基梅隆大学的J.C. Warner自然科学教授。

1995年，他和他的博士后王锦山发现了原子转移自由基聚合（ATRP）新化学反应和新活性聚合技术。

Krzysztof "Kris" Matyjaszewski (Polish: [ˈkʂɨʂtɔf matɨjaˈʂɛfskʲi]; born April 8, 1950) is a Polish-American chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), a novel method of polymer synthesis that has revolutionized the way macromolecules are made.

Matyjaszewski was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2019 for expanding the capabilities of controlled/living polymerizations and developing ATRP, a robust catalytic process for the radical polymerization of monomers. He received the prestigious Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2011, the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences in 2015, and the Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie, France in 2020, the National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences in 2023 the Blaise Pascal Medal in Chemistry from the European Academy of Sciences in 2026 and the Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Catalysis from the American Chemical Society in 2027.

Education and career

Matyjaszewski began studying chemistry at Lodz University of Technology in late 1960s and later graduated from the Petrochemical University in Moscow. He received his doctorate from the Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1976 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Florida in 1977. From 1978 to 1984, he was a research associate of the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 1984 to 1985, Matyjaszewski held appointments at the University of Paris, first as a research associate and then as a visiting professor. In 1985, he joined the chemistry department at Carnegie Mellon University. He founded and currently directs the university's Center for Macromolecular Engineering. This center is funded both by an active consortium and government agencies, including the National Science Foundation. In 1998, Matyjaszewski was appointed the J.C. Warner Professor of Natural Sciences. In 2004 he was named a university professor, the highest distinction faculty can achieve at Carnegie Mellon. Matyjaszewski is also an adjunct professor in Carnegie Mellon's department of materials science and chemical engineering.

From 1994 to 1998, Matyjaszewski served as head of the department of chemistry at Carnegie Mellon and assisted in recruiting additional faculty with strengths in polymer chemistry. At the same time, he formed a research consortium with various industrial corporations to expand the understanding of controlled radical polymerization, including ATRP, and accelerate the transfer of this technology to different commercial applications. A second consortium, the CRP Consortium, formed under his leadership in 2001, continues and expands these efforts, training university and industrial scientists in procedures for responsive polymeric material development and has comprised 60 industrial members. The same year, Matyjaszewski became an adjunct professor at Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering of the University of Pittsburgh.

Matyjaszewski is a co-inventor on 72 issued U.S. patented technologies and holds over 150 international patents.

Honorary degrees

• 2002 – University of Ghent, Belgium
• 2006 – Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2007 – Lodz University of Technology, Poland
• 2008 – University of Athens, Greece
• 2010 – l'Institut Polytechnique, Toulouse, France
• 2013 – Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
• 2013 – Universite P. & M. Curie, Sorbonne, Paris, France
• 2015 – Technion, Haifa, Israel
• 2016 – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland
• 2017 – University of Padua, Padua, Italy
• 2018 – University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
• 2023 – University of Crete, Greece
• 2024 – Rzeszow University of Technology in 2024
• 2026 – Jan Dlugosz University, Częstochowa, Poland

Visiting professorships

• ESPCI ParisTech, 2011
• University of Pusan, 2010
• Lodz University of Technology, 2009
• University of Tokyo, Fellow of the Japanese Society of the Promotion of Science, 2005
• University of Paris, 1985, 1990, 1997, 1998, 2005
• University of Bordeaux, 1996, 2004
• Michigan Molecular Institute, 2004
• University of Pisa, Italy, 2000
• University of Ulm, 1999
• University of Strasbourg, 1992
• University of Beyreuth, 1991
• University of Freiburg, 1988