Fraser Stoddart

Sir James Fraser Stoddart FRS FRSE FRSC is a Scottish chemist currently at 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 mechanicallyinterlocked molecular architectures such as molecular Borromean rings, catenanes and rotaxanes utilizing molecular recognition and molecular selfassembly processes. He has demonstrated that these topologies can be employed as molecular switches and as motormolecules. His group has even applied these structures in the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices and nanoelectromechanical systems . His efforts have been recognized by numerous awards including the 2007 King Faisal International Prize in Science.

Fraser Stoddart was born in Edinburgh, Scotland onMay 1942. He was brought up on Edgelaw Farm and received early schooling at a local village school in Carrington, Midlothian before going on to Melville College in Edinburgh. He obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Edinburgh University.

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