Grätzel Wins Millennium Grand Prize
HELSINKI, June 14, 2010 — The winner of the 2010 Millennium Technology Prize is Professor Michael Grätzel from Switzerland for his third generation, low cost, dye-sensitized solar cells. President of the Republic of Finland, Tarja Halonen, handed the EUR 800,000 ($980,000) Grand Prize and the prize trophy ‘Peak’ to Grätzel at Grand Award Ceremony at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki. One of mankind’s greatest challenges is to find ways to replace the diminishing fossil fuel...