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Jean-Marie Lehn

1939 - Today

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Jean-Marie Lehn (born 30 September 1939) is a French chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. Lehn was an early innovator in the field of supramolecular chemistry, i.e., the chemistry of host–guest molecular assemblies created by intermolecular interactions, and continues to innovate in this field. He described the process by which molecules recognize each other. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Marie Lehn has received more than 179,300 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Jean-Marie Lehn is the 127th most popular chemist, the 871st most popular biography from France (up from 903rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Chemist.

Jean-Marie Lehn is most famous for his work on peptide synthesis. He is also known for his work on the creation of a new field of chemistry called "supramolecular chemistry."

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jean-Marie Lehn ranks 127 out of 602. Before him are Robert Burns Woodward, Georg Wittig, Avram Hershko, Johan Gadolin, Clara Immerwahr, and Dan Shechtman. After him are Ignacy Mościcki, Raymond Davis Jr., Wendell Meredith Stanley, Lars Onsager, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, and William Howard Stein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Jean-Marie Lehn ranks 39. Before him are Clay Regazzoni, Ali MacGraw, Tzvetan Todorov, Jorge Sampaio, Marvin Gaye, and Paul Hogan. After him are Mark Margolis, Ray Manzarek, Wes Craven, Volker Schlöndorff, Michael Cimino, and Kenzō Takada.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Marie Lehn ranks 871 out of 6,770. Before him are Armand Fallières (1841), Bernart de Ventadorn (1135), Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), Adelaide of Maurienne (1092), Victoire of France (1733), and Dagobert II (650). After him are Louis, Duke of Orléans (1703), Charles François Dumouriez (1739), Guntram (532), Clotilde of France (1759), Martin Schongauer (1450), and Lucien Laurent (1907).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Jean-Marie Lehn ranks 14. Before him are Victor Grignard (1871), Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Black (1728), Joseph Proust (1754), and Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786). After him are Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), and Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850).

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