The Becquerel Prize for outstanding Merits in Photovoltaics

A highlight of the 26th EU PVSEC was the presentation of the Becquerel Prize, first awarded by the European Commission in 1989 to mark the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the photovoltaic effect by the Frenchman Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel.

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The Awarded International Personalities 1989-2011

1989  Prof. Roger Van Overstraeten
1991  Prof. Werner Bloss
1992  Prof. Antonio Luque
1994  Dr. Morton Prince
1995  Dr. Karlheinz Krebs
1997  Prof. Adolf Götzberger
1998  Dr. Walter Sandtner
2000  Mr. Frederick C. Treble
2001  Prof. Viacheslav Andreev
2003  Dr. Wolfgang Palz
2004  Prof. Masafumi Yamaguchi
2005  Prof. Joachim Luther
2006  Dr. Dieter Bonnet
2006  Dr. Richard M. Swanson
2007  Prof. Arvind Shah
2008  Mechtild Rothe
2009  Dr. Andreas W. Bett
2010  Prof. Hans-Werner Schock
2011  Prof. Wim Sinke