The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016
Awarded on: 2016-10-05
"for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"
Affiliations:
- University of Strasbourg – Strasbourg, France
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Born: 1944-10-21 in Paris, France
Gender: male
Field: French chemist, Nobel laureate
Biography
Jean-Pierre Sauvage is a French coordination chemist working at Strasbourg University. He graduated from the National School of Chemistry of Strasbourg, in 1967. He has specialized in supramolecular chemistry for which he has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa.