James Fraser Stoddart

Sir James Fraser Stoddart (born 24 May 1942) is a Scottish chemist currently (as of 7 October 2009 (2009 -10-07)) at the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. 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 utilizing molecular recognition and molecular s... more

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  • May 24, 1942 (age 67 years)

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