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Sir James Fraser Stoddart, FRS FRSE HonFRSC [1] (24 May 1942 – 30 December 2024) was a British-American chemist who was Chair Professor in Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong. [8] He was the Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry and head of the Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern ...
Feringa was born as the son of farmer Geert Feringa (1918–1993) and his wife Lies Feringa née Hake (1924–2013). Feringa was the second of ten siblings in a Catholic family. He spent his youth on the family's farm, which is directly on the border with Germany, in Barger-Compascuum in the Bourtange moor. He is of Dutch and German descent.
Fraser Stoddart (1942–2024), Scottish chemist, a pioneer in the field of the mechanical bond; Molly Shoichet, award-winning Canadian biomedical engineer known for her work in tissue engineering. She is the only person to be a fellow of the three National Academies in Canada; F. Gordon A. Stone (1925–2011), British inorganic chemist
He shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines" with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 7 ] [ 14 ] He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2019.
Fraser Stoddart was a shy and serene boy and young man . He received early schooling at the local village school in Carrington, Midlothian , before going on to Melville College in Edinburgh. He started at the University of Edinburgh in 1960 where he initially studied chemistry, physics and mathematics.
He was married to his wife, Nancy, for 66 years and had four children, Elizabeth, Peter, Sarah and Lesley. He also had four grandchildren. Knowles died in Chesterfield on June 13, 2012, at age 95. He and his wife had previously stated that their farm would be donated to be converted into a city park after their deaths. [8]
It was synthesized and named by Fraser Stoddart and coworkers in 1994. [1] The molecule was designed without any practical use in mind, [2] although other catenanes may have possible application to the construction of a molecular computer.
He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, [5] to German-Jewish émigrés, the son of the pioneering biochemist [6] Hans Walter Kosterlitz and Hannah Gresshöner. He was educated independently at Robert Gordon's College before transferring to the Edinburgh Academy to prepare for his university entrance examinations. [ 7 ]