CHEMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fraser Stoddart has received more than 369,844 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Fraser Stoddart is the 333rd most popular chemist (down from 274th in 2019), the 1,538th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,188th in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Fraser Stoddart ranks 333 out of 602Before him are Victor Goldschmidt, François-Marie Raoult, Jean Stas, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Édouard Herzen, and Thomas C. Südhof. After him are Otto Wichterle, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, and Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Fraser Stoddart ranks 184Before him are Billy Connolly, Jusuf Kalla, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Milton Nascimento, Ann Dunham, and Richard Roundtree. After him are Mike Markkula, Susan Sullivan, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Edward Luttwak, Fradique de Menezes, and Daliah Lavi. Among people deceased in 2024, Fraser Stoddart ranks 127Before him are Ratan Tata, Bernd Hölzenbein, Leif Segerstam, Frans de Waal, Bill Viola, and Vaino Väljas. After him are Philippe Leroy, Angelo Amato, Choe Thae-bok, James Herbert Brennan, Jürgen Moltmann, and Antonio Skármeta.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Fraser Stoddart ranks 1,538 out of 8,785Before him are Frederick Delius (1862), Beorhtric of Wessex (800), Christopher Isherwood (1904), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Robert Maynard (1684), and Greg Lake (1947). After him are Olaf Stapledon (1886), Ian Kershaw (1943), Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840), Anne Conway (1631), Jack W. Szostak (1952), and Karen Armstrong (1944).

Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Fraser Stoddart ranks 45Before him are Martin Lowry (1874), William Prout (1785), Frederick Abel (1827), Edward Frankland (1825), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), and Richard J. Roberts (1943). After him are Charles Macintosh (1766), Charles Hatchett (1765), Alexander William Williamson (1824), Tim Hunt (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), and Luke Howard (1772).