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]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Staff (5 October 2016). "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Davis, Nicola; Sample, Ian (5 October 2016). "live". the Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Sir Fraser Stoddart (1942-2024)". Northwestern University. 31 December 2024. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
- ↑ "J. Fraser Stoddart, Who Developed Microscopic Machines, Dies at 82". The New York Times. 11 January 2025. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
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