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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 210,980 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Jean-Pierre Sauvage is the 178th most popular chemist (up from 203rd in 2019), the 1,189th most popular biography from France (up from 1,370th in 2019) and the 21st 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 178 out of 509. Before him are John Vane, Rodney Robert Porter, Stephanie Kwolek, Arthur Kornberg, George Porter, and Georg Wittig. After him are Antoine Jérôme Balard, Louis Jacques Thénard, Max Perutz, Joachim Frank, Ei-ichi Negishi, and Walter Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 72. Before him are Peter Weir, Maria João Pires, David J. Wineland, Bernard Cornwell, Nelson Freire, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum. After him are Günter Netzer, Klaus Nomi, Bernhard Schlink, Serge Haroche, Jeroen Krabbé, and Thein Sein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 1,189 out of 6,011. Before him are Johannes Tauler (1300), Comtessa de Dia (1175), Charibert II (618), Jean-Marie Leclair (1697), Étienne Bézout (1730), and Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (1609). After him are Charles, Duke of Berry (1686), Julien Green (1900), Gérard Genette (1930), Max Linder (1883), Pierre Bergé (1930), and Étienne Cabet (1788).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 21. Before him are Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), and Nicolas Leblanc (1742). After him are Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), and Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838).

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