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Jean-Pierre Sauvage

1944 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Pierre Sauvage is the 73rd most popular chemist (up from 135th in 2019), the 406th most popular biography from France (up from 912th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Chemist.

Jean-Pierre Sauvage is most famous for his discovery of the chemical reaction that creates a new type of molecule called a [succinimide] that he and his colleagues found to be an important part of the process of photosynthesis.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 73 out of 602. Before him are Henry Hallett Dale, Gerty Cori, Vladimir Prelog, Gertrude B. Elion, Dorothy Hodgkin, and William Giauque. After him are Karl Ziegler, Hermann Staudinger, Tu Youyou, Paul Sabatier, Albert Hofmann, and Hans von Euler-Chelpin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 17. Before him are Sebastião Salgado, Jairzinho, Reinhold Messner, Rutger Hauer, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and Ernő Rubik. After him are Miloš Zeman, Geraldine Chaplin, Jane Hawking, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Jimmy Page, and Peter Mayhew.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 406 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis IV of France (920), Gustave Moreau (1826), Jules Rimet (1873), Albert Fert (1938), Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), and Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709). After him are Charles, Count of Valois (1270), Patrice de MacMahon (1808), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), Jean Dubuffet (1901), Paul Valéry (1871), and Paul Sabatier (1854).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 9. Before him are Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Henri Moissan (1852), Alfred Werner (1866), Victor Grignard (1871), and Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850). After him are Paul Sabatier (1854), Joseph Black (1728), Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Proust (1754), and Jean-Marie Lehn (1939).

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