Fraser Stoddart

Sir

Fraser Stoddart

FRS FRSE HonFRSC
Sir; Fraser Stoddart; FRS FRSE HonFRSC
	Sir Fraser Stoddart at Northwestern University October 2016, by Jim Prisching
Born	James Fraser Stoddart; 24 May 1942; Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Citizenship	United Kingdom; United States
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh (BSc, PhD)
Known for	Mechanical Bond in Chemistry; Molecular shuttles and Molecular switches; Artificial Molecular Machines; Template-Directed Synthesis; Chemical Topology; Stereochemistry; Metal-Organic Frameworks; Cyclodextrin Chemistry
Spouse	Norma Agnes Scholan (m. 1968; died 2004)
Children	Two; Fiona Jane McCubbin; Alison Margaret Stoddart
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society of London (1994); Nagoya Gold Medal in Organic Chemistry (2004); King Faisal Prize (2007); Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2007); Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2007); Knight Bachelor (2007); Arthur C. Cope Award (2008); Davy Medal by The Royal Society of London (2008); Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2008); Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2014); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2016); Fellow of The National Academy of Inventors (2019);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physical Organic Chemistry; Lock-and-Key Chemistry; Unnatural Product Synthesis; Molecular Nanotechnology
Institutions	Queen's University (1967–1969); University of Sheffield (1970–1990); ICI Corporate Laboratory, Runcorn (1978–1981); University of Birmingham (1990–1997); University of California, Los Angeles (1997–2007); Northwestern University (2008– ); Tianjin University (2014– ); University of New South Wales (2018– )
Theses	Studies on plant gums of the Acacia group (1966); Some adventures in stereochemistry (1980);
Doctoral advisor	Edmund Langley Hirst; Douglas M W Anderson;
Other academic advisors	J K N (Ken) Jones FRS; W David Ollis FRS;
Notable students	David Leigh Narayanaswamy Jayaraman ; Douglas Philp
Website	stoddart.northwestern.edu

Sir James Fraser Stoddart FRS FRSE HonFRSC (born 24 May 1942) is a British-American chemist who is 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. He works in the area of supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology. Stoddart has developed highly efficient syntheses of mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures such as molecular Borromean rings, catenanes and rotaxanes utilising molecular recognition and molecular self-assembly processes. He has demonstrated that these topologies can be employed as molecular switches. His group has even applied these structures in the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). His efforts have been recognized by numerous awards, including the 2007 King Faisal International Prize in Science. 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.

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