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J. Fraser Stoddart

Sir Fraser Stoddart
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Sir Fraser Stoddart at Nobel press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, December 2016
Born James Fraser Stoddart
(1942-05-24) 24 May 1942 (age 74)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Residence UK, US
Citizenship United States
Nationality British
Fields Supramolecular chemistry
Institutions Queen's University (1967–70)
University of Sheffield (1970–1990)
University of Birmingham (1990–1997)
University of California, Los Angeles (1997–2008)
Northwestern University (2008– )
Alma mater University of Edinburgh
Theses
Doctoral advisor
Doctoral students David Leigh
Narayanaswamy Jayaraman
Known for Mechanically interlocked molecular architectures (MIMAs)
Notable awards
Spouse Norma Agnes Scholan (m. 1968; her death 2004)
Children Two
Website
stoddart.northwestern.edu
External video
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"Fraser Stoddart: Mingling Art with Science", STE[+a]M Connect
"The Beauty and Promise of Molecular Nanotechnology", PSW Science
"Fraser Stoddart on Molecular Assembly", 1990, University of Birmingham

Sir James Fraser Stoddart FRS FRSE FRSC (born 24 May 1942) is a Scottish-born American chemist who is 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. 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 utilizing molecular recognition and molecular self-assembly processes. He has demonstrated that these topologies can be employed as molecular switches. His group has even applied these structures in the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). His efforts have been recognized by numerous awards including the 2007 King Faisal International Prize in Science. 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.


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