26 Jun 2019
In this video, we talk to Nobel Laureate Fraser Stoddart about the most recent discoveries, studies and technologies in chemistry. Fraser Stoddart, along with Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Ben Feringa, won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the design and synthesis of artificial molecular machines.
Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Fraser Stoddart studied at the University of Edinburgh where he received his PhD in 1966. He has then been working at Queens' University, Kingston, Ontario in Canada, at the University of Sheffield, ICI Corporate Laboratory and University of Birmingham in Great Britain, and at the University of California Los Angeles and Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois in the USA. In 2016 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.