Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Jean-Pierre Sauvage | |
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Sauvage at Nobel press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, December 2016 | |
| Born | 21 October 1944 Paris, France |
| 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. 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.