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Fraser Stoddart

1942 - 2024

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Sir James Fraser Stoddart, (24 May 1942 – 30 December 2024) was a British-American chemist who was Chair Professor in Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong. He was the 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. He worked in the area of supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology. Stoddart developed highly efficient syntheses of mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures such as molecular Borromean rings, catenanes and rotaxanes utilising molecular recognition and molecular self-assembly processes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fraser Stoddart is the 268th most popular chemist (up from 333rd in 2019), the 1,070th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,537th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Chemist. Learn more about Fraser Stoddart's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Fraser Stoddart ranks 268 out of 602. Before him are Fritz Strassmann, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Martin Rodbell, Dudley R. Herschbach, Edwin G. Krebs, and Emil Erlenmeyer. After him are Franz Karl Achard, Elias James Corey, Georg Brandt, Rudolph A. Marcus, Joachim Sauer, and Joseph L. Goldstein.

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Among people born in 1942, Fraser Stoddart ranks 108. Before him are Daniel Dennett, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Jules Wijdenbosch, António Lobo Antunes, John Cale, and Barry Levinson. After him are Yasuyuki Kuwahara, Lee Kun-hee, Donna Leon, Muhammadu Buhari, Maria Kaczyńska, and Britt Ekland. Among people deceased in 2024, Fraser Stoddart ranks 80. Before him are Andrew Schally, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, Angelo Amato, Marcello Gandini, Daniel Dennett, and Karl-Heinz Schnellinger. After him are Gustavo Gutiérrez, Seiji Ozawa, Iris Apfel, Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, Geneviève Grad, and Silvia Pinal.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Fraser Stoddart ranks 1,070 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Kelley (1555), Ed Miliband (1969), Henry Briggs (1561), Anthony Head (1954), Van Morrison (1945), and Tom Holland (1996). After him are Twiggy (1949), Benjamin Hornigold (1680), Tony Richardson (1928), Robert Grosseteste (1175), Peter Benenson (1921), and Roger Scruton (1944).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Fraser Stoddart ranks 36. Before him are John Newlands (1837), John Vane (1927), William Hyde Wollaston (1766), John Frederic Daniell (1790), John Pople (1925), and Ida Noddack (1896). After him are Thomas Graham (1805), Richard J. Roberts (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), William Henry (1774), Smithson Tennant (1761), and Michael Smith (1932).

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