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Fraser Stoddart

1942 - Today

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Sir James Fraser Stoddart (born 24 May 1942) is a British-American chemist who is 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 works in the area of supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology. Stoddart has developed highly efficient syntheses of mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures such as molecular Borromean rings, catenanes and rotaxanes utilising molecular recognition and molecular self-assembly processes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fraser Stoddart has received more than 338,678 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Fraser Stoddart is the 274th most popular chemist (up from 326th in 2019), the 1,192nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,562nd in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Chemist.

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  • 46

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  • 8.57

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  • 3.42

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Fraser Stoddart ranks 274 out of 509. Before him are Hideki Shirakawa, Alan MacDiarmid, Richard Smalley, Kenichi Fukui, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, and Edmond H. Fischer. After him are Thomas A. Steitz, Alexander Shulgin, William Henry, Torbern Bergman, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and Bernard Courtois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Fraser Stoddart ranks 132. Before him are Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Isaac Hayes, Kang Kek Iew, Mirjana Marković, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, and Carole King. After him are Milan Milutinović, Frank Zane, Herbjørg Wassmo, Muslim Magomayev, Pedro Rocha, and Péter Nádas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Fraser Stoddart ranks 1,192 out of 7,765. Before him are Thomas Hodgkin (1798), Nicko McBrain (1952), William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), Dave Murray (1956), James Jeans (1877), and Hudson Taylor (1832). After him are Don Airey (1948), Michael Moorcock (1939), Henry Walter Bates (1825), Marc Bolan (1947), Jack Bruce (1943), and Alan Bates (1934).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Fraser Stoddart ranks 37. Before him are Herbert C. Brown (1912), William Hyde Wollaston (1766), John E. Walker (1941), Ida Noddack (1896), Thomas Graham (1805), and Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921). After him are William Henry (1774), Richard J. Roberts (1943), Martin Lowry (1874), Edward Frankland (1825), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), and Smithson Tennant (1761).

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