Sir J. Fraser Stoddart Ph.D.
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart is one of the few chemists of the past quarter of a century to have created a new field of organic chemistry – namely, one in which the mechanical bond is a pre-eminent feature of molecular compounds. In 1970 Dr. Stoddart went to Sheffield University as an Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Research Fellow, before joining the academic staff as a Lecturer in Chemistry. He was a Science Research Council Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1978. After spending a sabbatical (1978-81) at the ICI Corporate Laboratory in Runcorn, he returned to Sheffield where he was promoted to a Readership in 1982. He was awarded a DSc degree by Edinburgh in 1980 for his research into stereochemistry beyond the molecule. In 1990, he took up the Chair of Organic Chemistry at Birmingham University and was Head of the School of Chemistry there (1993-97) before moving to UCLA as the Saul Winstein Professor of Chemistry in 1997. In July 2002, he became the Acting Co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). On May 1, 2003, he was appointed the Director of the CNSI and assumed the Fred Kavli Chair of NanoSystems Sciences.He has pioneered the development of the use of molecular recognition and self-assembly processes in template-directed protocols for the syntheses of two-state mechanically interlocked compounds (bistable catenanes and rotaxanes) that have been employed as molecular switches and as motor-molecules in the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices and NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS). His work has been recognized by many awards, including the Carbohydrate Chemistry Award of The Chemical Society (1978), the International Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry (1993), the American Chemical Society’s Cope Scholar Award (1999), and the Nagoya Gold Medal in Organic Chemistry (2004). He was one of ca. 20 research scientists to be invited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to participate in the Nobel Jubilee Symposium on “Frontiers of Molecular Sciences” in Stockholm in December 2001. In 2005, he received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from Birmingham University, as well as being the recipient of the University of Edinburgh Alumnus of the Year 2005 Award. In late 2006, he will receive an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Twente. He is currently on the international advisory boards of numerous journals, including Angewandte Chemie and the Journal of Organic Chemistry. He is the editor of the Royal Society of Chemistry Series of Monographs on Supramolecular Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1994), the German Academy of Natural Sciences (1999), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2005), and the Science Division of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006). In addition to being made an Honorary Professor at the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai and the Carnegie Centenary Visiting Professor at the Scottish Universities in 2005, Stoddart has been awarded named lectureships by, inter alia, the following universities – Alberta, Albany (SUNY), Brigham Young, Berkeley (UC), Bristol, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dalhousie, Dundee, Edinburgh, ETH Zurich, Hebrew, Kaiserslautern, Kansas, Karlsruhe, Louvain La Neuve, McGill, Minnesota, Missouri-St Louis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Montreal, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Purdue, Regensburg, Rochester, Saskatoon, Simon-Fraser, Song Sil, Strasbourg, Sydney, Texas Austin, Texas A&M, Texas Christian, Vanderbilt, Victoria, Western Ontario, Wesleyan, Wisconsin, and Yale. He has also been Middle Rhine (1982), Troisième Cycle en Chemie (1988), and Atlantic Coast (1993) Lecturer. He went on Royal Society Lecture Tours of the USSR and Japan in 1986 and 1987, respectively. In Recent News: Stoddart Lab Heads Nano Work To Build Computer Memory from Molecules EducationDr. Fraser Stoddart (b 1942) received his BSc (1964) and PhD (1966) degrees from Edinburgh University. In 1967, he went to Queen’s University (Canada) as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow.Career HighlightsAcademic Career2003 - Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences at University of California at Los Angeles 1997-2003 Saul Winstein Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles 1993-1997 Head of School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham 1990-1997 Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Birmingham 1981-1990 Reader in Chemistry at the University of Sheffield 1978-1981 On Secondment to ICI Corporate Laboratory in Runcorn 1970-1978 Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Sheffield 1970 ICI Research Fellowship at the University of Sheffield 1967-1970 NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queens’ University/Kingston/Ontario 1964-1966 DSIR Postgraduate Studentship at the University of Edinburgh Current Professional Activities Editor of RCS Monographs on Supramolecular Chemistry Associate Editor of Organic Letters Member of the Editorial Board of Bioorganic Chemistry Reviews Member of Editorial Board of the Journal of Inclusion Phenomena Member of the Editorial Board of Synthesis Member of the EPSRC Chemistry Committee Member of the International Advisory Board of Angewandte Chemie Member of the Editorial Board of Chemistry — A European Journal Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice Member of the International Advisory Board of Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Organic Letters Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Organic Chemistry Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Crystal Growth and Design AwardsHope Prize in Chemistry (Edinburgh University) 1964NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Queen's University/Canada) 1967/9 ICI Postdoctoral Fellowship (Sheffield University) 1970 Visiting Lecturer (Parana University/Brazil) 1972 Carbohydrate Chemistry Award of The Chemical Society 1978 SRC Senior Visiting Fellowship (UCLA/USA) 1978 RSC Perkin Division Career Awards 1980/1/2 Visiting Professorship (Texas A & M University/USA) 1980 Middle Rhine Lecturer (FRG & Switzerland & France) 1982 Royal Society Lecture Tour (USSR) 1986 Leverhulme Research Fellowship 1986/7 Visiting Professorship (Messina University/Italy) 1985/7 Emilio-Noelting-Visiting Professor (Mulhouse/France) 1987 Royal Society Lecture Tour (Japan) 1987 Troisième Cycle en Chemie (Switzerland) 1988 Leverhulme Research Fellowship 1988/9 Distinguished Lecturer (18th Leermakers Symposium/Wesleyan/USA) 1990 Pfizer Lecturer (Ohio State University/USA) 1991 Lauderman Memorial Lecturer (Washington University/USA) 1991 Dupont Lecturer (Berkeley/USA) 1991 Ernest Ritchie Memorial Lecturer (Sydney University Chemical Society/Australia) 1992 Walter J Chute Lecturer (Dalhousie University/Canada) 1992 Walsh Lecturer (University of Dundee) 1993 Atlantic Coast Lecturer (University of Maryland/Virginia Polytechnic/ Duke University/University of South Carolina/University of Miami) 1993 First Janssen Lecturer (Strasbourg University/France) 1993 International Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry 1993 Walker Memorial Lecture (Edinburgh University/Scotland) 1994 Fellowship of the Royal Society of London 1994 Chaire Bruylants Award (University of Louvaine-La-Neuve/Belgium) 1994 Sixth Henry G Kuivila Lecturer (State University of New York at Albany/USA) 1994 Adolf Steinhofer Foundation Award (University of Kaiserslautern/Germany) 1995 Sandoz Foundation Lecturer (University of Regensburg/Germany) 1995 Miles (Bayer) Lecturer (University of Cornell) 1995 Abbott Lecturer (University of Chicago) 1995 Wilson Baker Lecturer (University of Bristol) 1995 Regents Endowed Memorial Lecturer (University of Texas at Austin/USA) 1996 Bernard Belleau Memorial Lecturer (McGill University/Montreal) 1997 Leo H Sternbach Lecturer (Yale University/USA) 1997 Hutchison Memorial Lecturer (University of Rochester/USA) 1997 First Soong Sil Lecturer (Soong Sil University/Seoul/Korea) 1997 Castle Lecturer (Bringham Young University/USA) 1998 Bio-Mega Lecturer (University of Alberta/Canada) 1998 Humboldt Fellowship 1998 Fred Pattison Senior Lecturer (University of Western Ontario, Canada) 1999 Cope Scholar Award (American Chemical Society) 1999 Fellowship of the Germany Academy of Natural Sciences, Leopoldina 1999 Samuel M McElvain Lecturer (University of Wisconsin at Madison) 2000 Industrial Associates Program Lecturer (Columbia University) 2000 Distinguished Visiting Scientist Series (Juniata College, Huntingdon PA) 2000 Green Lectureship (Texas Christian University) 2000 Merck Frosst Lectureship (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver) 2000 Mitchum Warren Lectureship (Vanderbilt University, Nashville) 2000 Herbert Newby McCoy Award (UCLA) 2001 Barré Lectureship (University of Montréal) 2001 Robert B Murray Lectureship (University of Missouri-St Louis) 2002 Closs Lectureship (University of Chicago) 2002 Dains Lectureship (University of Kansas) 2002 Nieuwland Lectureship (University of Notre Dame) 2002 Liversidge Lectureship (University of Sydney) 2003 Spinks Lectureship (University of Sydney) 2003 Lansdowne Lectureship (University of Victoria) 2003 Musher Memorial Lectureship (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 2004 Wyeth Research Lectureship (University of Pennsylvania) 2004 Nagoya Gold Medal in Organic Chemistry 2004 Carnegie Centenary Professorship at the Universities of Scotland 2005 American Chemical Society PMSE Division Arthur K Doolittle Award 2005 Honorary Professor (East China University of Science and Technology) 2005 Honorary Doctor of Science Degree (University of Birmingham) 2005 Paul Gassman Lectureship (University of Minnesota) 2005 First Novartis Lectureship (ETH Zürich) 2005 University of Edinburgh Alumnus of the Year 2005 Award 2005 Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2005 Karcher Lectureship (University of Oklahoma) 2006 Mack Memorial Award (Ohio State University) 2006 Criegee Lectureship (University of Karlsruhe) 2006 Fusion Award (University of Nevada) 2006 BooksContributor to the Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering and Technology, Second Edition (CRC Press) 2007. |
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