Jean-Pierre Sauvage | |
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![]() Sauvage at Nobel press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, December 2016 | |
Born | Paris, France | 21 October 1944
Nationality | French |
Education | ECPM Strasbourg |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | coordination chemistry, supramolecular chemistry |
Institutions | Strasbourg University |
Thesis | Les Diaza-polyoxa-macrobicycles et leur cryptates (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | Jean-Marie Lehn |
Jean-Pierre Sauvage (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ sovaʒ]; born 21 October 1944) is a French coordination chemist working at Strasbourg University. He graduated from the National School of Chemistry of Strasbourg (now known as ECPM Strasbourg), in 1967.[3] He has specialized in supramolecular chemistry for which he has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa.