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Sir James Fraser Stoddart (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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President Barack Obama greets the 2016 American Nobel Prize winners in the Oval Office, 30 November 2016, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (2nd right), Laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Crystal structure of a rotaxane with a cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) macrocycle reported by Stoddart and coworkers in the Eur. J. Org. Chem. 1998, 2565–2571.
Crystal structure of a catenane with a cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) macrocycle reported by Stoddart and coworkers in the Chem. Commun., 1991, 634–639.
Crystal structure of molecular Borromean rings reported by Stoddart and coworkers Science 2004, 304, 1308–1312.
Molecular Solomon's knot AngewChemIntEd 2007 v46 p218
References
- ↑ Nanotechnology Star Fraser Stoddart to Join Northwestern. NewsCenter (16 August 2007)Northwestern University. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ↑ Staff (5 October 2016). "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016". Nobel Foundation. https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2016/press.html. 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. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/science/nobel-prize-chemistry.html. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ Davis, Nicola. live. the Guardian (5 October 2016). Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016
- ↑ Van Noorden, Richard. World's tiniest machines win chemistry Nobel. Nature 538 (7624) (2016). p. 152–153. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20734.
- ↑ Sir Fraser Stoddart (1942-2024) (31 December 2024)Northwestern University. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
- ↑ J. Fraser Stoddart, Who Developed Microscopic Machines, Dies at 82 (11 January 2025)The New York Times. Retrieved 12 January 2025.