23 Facts About Fraser Stoddart

Sir James Fraser Stoddart was born on 24 May 1942 and 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.

Fraser Stoddart has demonstrated that these topologies can be employed as molecular switches.

Fraser Stoddart's group has even applied these structures in the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices and nanoelectromechanical systems.

Fraser Stoddart's efforts have been recognized by numerous awards including the 2007 King Faisal International Prize in Science.

Fraser Stoddart shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

Fraser Stoddart was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 24 May 1942.

Fraser Stoddart was brought up as a tenant farmer on Edgelaw Farm, a small community consisting of three families, and received early schooling at the local village school in Carrington, Midlothian, before going on to Melville College in Edinburgh.

Fraser Stoddart was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1964 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in 1967 from the University of Edinburgh the latter for research on natural gums in Acacias supervised by Edmund Langley Hirst and D M W Anderson.

Fraser Stoddart was a Science Research Council Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1978.

Fraser Stoddart was awarded a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1980 for his research into stereochemistry beyond the molecule.

In 2017, Fraser Stoddart was appointed a part-time position at the University of New South Wales to establish his New Chemistry initiative at the UNSW School of Chemistry.

In 2019, Sir Fraser Stoddart introduced a premium skin care brand called "Noble Panacea", which utilizes aspects of his work.

Fraser Stoddart is one of only a few chemists of the past quarter century to pioneer a new field in organic chemistry.

Fraser Stoddart's group reported the synthesis of an advanced mechanically interlocked molecular architecture called molecular Borromean rings through the use of dynamic covalent chemistry.

Fraser Stoddart has pioneered the use of mechanically interlocked molecular architectures to create nanomechanical systems.

Fraser Stoddart has demonstrated that such devices can be fabricated using a combination of the bottom-up approach of molecular self-assembly and a top-down approach of lithography and microfabrication.

Fraser Stoddart had the vision to realise that these architectures gave you the possibility of large amplitude-controlled motions, and that that could be the basis of molecular machines.

Fraser Stoddart maintains this standardized color scheme across all of his publications and presentations, and his style has been adopted by other researchers reporting mechanically interlocked molecules based on his syntheses.

Fraser Stoddart has published more than 1000 publications and holds at least ten patents.

The Institute for Scientific Information predicted that Fraser Stoddart was a likely laureate of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with George M Whitesides and Seiji Shinkai for their contributions to molecular self-assembly.

Fraser Stoddart was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the New Year's Honours December 2006, by Queen Elizabeth II.

Fraser Stoddart married Norma Agnes Scholan, in 1968 until her death in 2004 from cancer and has two daughters.

Norma Fraser Stoddart obtained a PhD in biochemistry and helped support the research efforts of her husband at the Universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, and California, Los Angeles.