Claude Piguet earned a master’s degree in music in 1983 (Oboe, Jean-Pierre Surget) and a PhD degree in coordination chemistry in 1989 (Alan F. Williams). After postdoctoral periods in supramolecular chemistry (Jean-Marie Lehn) and in lanthanide photophysics (Jean-Claude G. Bünzli), he was appointed in as a full professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Geneva (1999, successor to Christian K. Jørgensen). Claude Piguet earned the Werner Medal from the Swiss Chemical Society in 1995 and the Lecoq de Boisbaudran Award from the European Rare Earth Society in 2009.
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