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Jean-Marie Lehn

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Jean-Marie Lehn (born 30 September 1939) is a French chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. Lehn was an early innovator in the field of supramolecular chemistry, i.e., the chemistry of host–guest molecular assemblies created by intermolecular interactions, and continues to innovate in this field. He described the process by which molecules recognize each other. Drugs, for example, "know" which cell to destroy and which to let live. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Marie Lehn is the 140th most popular chemist (down from 127th in 2019), the 662nd most popular biography from France (up from 871st in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Chemist.

Jean-Marie Lehn is most famous for his work on peptide synthesis. He is also known for his work on the creation of a new field of chemistry called "supramolecular chemistry."

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jean-Marie Lehn ranks 140 out of 602. Before him are John Cornforth, Harold Urey, Wilfrid Voynich, Gerhard Ertl, Robert Burns Woodward, and Paul Flory. After him are Johan Gadolin, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Julius Lothar Meyer, Roger D. Kornberg, Jerome Karle, and Kurt Wüthrich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Jean-Marie Lehn ranks 24. Before him are Reuven Rivlin, Margaret Atwood, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, James Fox, Ralph Lauren, and Karel Gott. After him are Jackie Stewart, Romano Prodi, Michèle Mercier, Harry Kroto, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, and Barbara Liskov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Marie Lehn ranks 662 out of 6,770. Before him are Alexandre Millerand (1859), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Syagrius (430), Rudolph of France (890), and Fulk, King of Jerusalem (1092). After him are Johnny Hallyday (1943), Paul Dukas (1865), Alain Resnais (1922), Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712), François-André Danican Philidor (1726), and Anne of Foix-Candale (1484).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Jean-Marie Lehn ranks 15. Before him are Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Paul Sabatier (1854), Joseph Black (1728), Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), and Joseph Proust (1754). After him are Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763).

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