CHEMIST

Jean-Pierre Sauvage

1944 - Today

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Jean-Pierre Sauvage (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ sovaʒ]; born 21 October 1944) is a French coordination chemist working at Strasbourg University. He graduated from the National School of Chemistry of Strasbourg (now known as ECPM Strasbourg), in 1967. He has specialized in supramolecular chemistry for which he has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Pierre Sauvage has received more than 220,072 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Jean-Pierre Sauvage is the 135th most popular chemist (up from 178th in 2019), the 912th most popular biography from France (up from 1,185th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Chemist.

Jean-Pierre Sauvage is most famous for his discovery of the chemical reaction that creates a new type of molecule called a [succinimide] that he and his colleagues found to be an important part of the process of photosynthesis.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 135 out of 602. Before him are Raymond Davis Jr., Wendell Meredith Stanley, Lars Onsager, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, William Howard Stein, and Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. After him are Glenn T. Seaborg, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Joachim Frank, Kurt Wüthrich, Willard Libby, and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 59. Before him are David J. Wineland, Nebahat Çehre, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Cevert, Maria João Pires, and Rudy Giuliani. After him are Peter Weir, John Holmes, Askar Akayev, Bora Milutinović, Leila Khaled, and Makoto Kobayashi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 912 out of 6,770. Before him are Joan the Lame (1293), René Clément (1913), Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy (1143), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Claude Chappe (1763), and Jean Anouilh (1910). After him are Stéphane Audran (1932), Antoine Galland (1646), Ivo of Kermartin (1253), Sigismund of Burgundy (500), Francis Lai (1932), and Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 15. Before him are Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Black (1728), Joseph Proust (1754), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), and Jean-Marie Lehn (1939). After him are Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), and Nicolas Leblanc (1742).

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