Background
Jean-Claude Georges Bünzli was born on September 23, 1944 in Moutier, Switzerland. He is a son of Jean and Marthe Clerc Bünzli.
Jean-Claude Georges Bünzli was born on September 23, 1944 in Moutier, Switzerland. He is a son of Jean and Marthe Clerc Bünzli.
In 1968 Jean-Claude Georges Bünzli received a degree in chemical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1971.
Jean-Claude Georges Bünzli spent two years at the University of British Columbia as a teaching postdoctoral fellow (photoelectron spectroscopy) and one year at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (physical organic chemistry). He was appointed assistant professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in 1974 and started a research program on the coordination and spectroscopic properties of f-elements. He was promoted as a full professor of inorganic and analytical chemistry in 1980, a dean faculty of science from 1990 to 1991, a vice rector from 1991 to 1995.
Jean-Claude Georges Bünzli is a member of the European Rare-Earth and Actinide Society, American Chemical Society, Swiss Chemical Society, Finnish Academy Arts and Sciences.
On March 29, 1968 Jean-Claude Georges Bünzli married Ursula Trepp. In April 1990 they divorced. They have three children: Dominique, Pascal, Daniel. On July 5, 1991 he married Marie-Louise Colombo.