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Fraser Stoddart

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Sir James Fraser Stoddart FRS FRSE FRSC (24 May 1942 – 30 December 2024) was a British chemist. He was 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.[1] 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.[2][3][4][5][6] He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Stoddart died on 30 December 2024 while on vacation at a hotel in Melbourne, Australia from cardiac arrest at the age of 82.[7][8]

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  1. "Nanotechnology Star Fraser Stoddart to Join Northwestern". NewsCenter. Northwestern University. 16 August 2007. Archived from the original on 4 July 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  2. Staff (5 October 2016). "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  3. Chang, Kenneth; Chan, Sewell (5 October 2016). "3 Makers of 'World's Smallest Machines' Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  4. Davis, Nicola; Sample, Ian (5 October 2016). "live". the Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  5. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016
  6. Van Noorden, Richard; Castelvecchi, Davide (2016). "World's tiniest machines win chemistry Nobel". Nature. 538 (7624): 152–153. Bibcode:2016Natur.538..152V. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20734. PMID 27734892.
  7. "Sir Fraser Stoddart (1942-2024)". Northwestern University. 31 December 2024. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  8. "J. Fraser Stoddart, Who Developed Microscopic Machines, Dies at 82". The New York Times. 11 January 2025. Retrieved 12 January 2025.