Fraser Stoddart Age, Biography & More
Some Lesser Known Facts About Fraser Stoddart
- Does Fraser Stoddart smoke?: Not Known
- Does Fraser Stoddart drink alcohol?: Not Known
- He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and was brought up on Edgelaw Farm.
- He attended a local village school in Edinburgh.
- After completing his academics, he joined Sheffield University as a lecturer of Chemistry.
- In 1978, he was a Science Research Council Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
- He was promoted to Readership at the Sheffield University in 1982.
- He moved to the Chair of Organic Chemistry at the Birmingham University in 1990 and was appointed head of the School of Chemistry there.
- In 1997, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), succeeding Nobel Laureate Donald Cram.
- Stoddart has trained nearly 300 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers during 35 years in his laboratories.
- He is known for using Nanomechanical Systems by using Mechanically-Interlocked Molecular Architectures.
- Stoddart has been credited for making molecular machines attractive to chemists.
- His papers and other presentation materials are easily recognized due to his distinctive cartoon-style of representation which he has developed since late 1980s.
- Fraser holds at least 10 patents and has published more than 1000 publications.
- From January 1997 to August 2007, Institute for Scientific Information ranked him as the 3rd most cited chemist.
- The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) predicted him as the likely winner for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- In 2006, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him a Knight Bachelor in the New Year’s Honours.
- His work in the Chemistry has changed the way chemists think about Molecular Switches and Machines.
- His contributions in the field of Chemistry were highly recognized in 2016, when he was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Bernard L. Feringa for their design and production of Molecular Machines. They have developed molecules with controllable movements and these molecules can perform a task when energy is added.Â
- 8 million Swedish krona, to be shared equally between the three Nobel Laureates.
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