Professor Stuart Taylor FRSC
Winner: 2023 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open Prize: Environment Prize
Cardiff University
For pioneering work on 乐天堂app下载 discovery of catalysts that have been commercialised for environmental protection, including carbon monoxide oxidation catalysts for critical life support applications.
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