Fraser Stoddart
Scottish chemist and 2016 Nobel Laureate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir James Fraser Stoddart FRS FRSE HonFRSC[4] (born 24 May 1942[1]) is a British-American chemist who is Chair Professor in Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong.[8] He has also been Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry and head of the Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in the United States.[9] He works in the area of supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology. Stoddart has developed highly efficient syntheses of mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures such as molecular Borromean rings, catenanes and rotaxanes utilising molecular recognition and molecular self-assembly processes. He has demonstrated that these topologies can be employed as molecular switches.[10] His group has even applied these structures in the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS).[11] His efforts have been recognized by numerous awards, including the 2007 King Faisal International Prize in Science.[12][13][14] He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.[5][15][16][17][18]
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Born | James Fraser Stoddart (1942-05-24) 24 May 1942 (age 82) |
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | United Kingdom United States |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh (BSc, PhD) |
Known for | Mechanical Bond in Chemistry Molecular shuttles and Molecular switches Artificial Molecular Machines Template-Directed Synthesis Chemical Topology Stereochemistry Metal-Organic Frameworks Cyclodextrin Chemistry |
Spouse |
Norma Agnes Scholan
(m. 1968; died 2004) |
Children | Two[1] Fiona Jane McCubbin Alison Margaret Stoddart |
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Fields | Physical Organic Chemistry Lock-and-Key Chemistry Unnatural Product Synthesis Molecular Nanotechnology |
Institutions | Queen's University (1967–1969) University of Sheffield (1970–1990) ICI Corporate Laboratory, Runcorn (1978–1981) University of Birmingham (1990–1997) University of California, Los Angeles (1997–2007) Northwestern University (2008– ) Tianjin University (2014– ) University of New South Wales (2018– ) University of Hong Kong (2023– ) |
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Notable students | David Leigh Narayanaswamy Jayaraman[7] Douglas Philp |
Website | stoddart |