The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who have advanced the design of nanomachines, molecular motors, supramolecular chemistry, and molecular actuators. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, 71, of the University of Strasbourg in France, and Professor Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, 74, (Northwestern University) split one half of this year’s chemistry prize. The other half has been awarded to Bernard Feringa, 65, of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
One of the 2016 Nobel Laureates winners, Dr. Stoddart, was in our Department at Queen’s University from 1967-1970 while he was an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, after completing his Ph.D. at Edinburgh University in Scotland. Both, Bernard Feringa and Sir Fraser Stoddart visited our department, recently. Feringa delivered the 2010 McRae lecture and Stoddart gave the 2012 Jones lecture.
