UC Berkeley energy and chemistry professor Peidong Yang has received the 2020 Global Energy Prize for his research. A prestigious prize awarded annually in Russia by the president of the Russian Federation, the Global Energy Prize recognizes research and technological developments in the field of energy from around the world. Yang received the accolade in the Global Energy Prize's Non-Conventional Energy category for the invention of the nanoparticle-based solar cell and artificial photosynthesis.