A speaker at the Fourth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology
J. Fraser Stoddart
J. Fraser Stoddart has been Professor of Organic Chemistry at
the University of Birmingham since 1990. He was appointed
Head of the School of Chemistry there in 1993. Previously, he
was a Reader in Chemistry at the University of Sheffield for eight
years, where he was also Lecturer from 1970 to 1982. From
1978 to 1981, he was seconded from the University of Sheffield
to the ICI Corporate Laboratory in Runcorn. He gained his BSc
in 1964, his PhD in 1966, and his DSc in 1980, all from the
University of Edinburgh. He was elected to the Fellowship of the
Royal Society of London in 1994. He has received many
awards, including the International Izatt-Christensen Award in
Macrocyclic Chemistry in 1993, and has been a distinguished
lecturer in many universities all around the world, e.g.
Lauderman Memorial Lecturer at Washington University/St.
Louis in 1991, Ernest Ritchie Memorial Lecturer at Sydney
University/Australia and the Walter J. Chute Lecturer at
Dalhousie University/Canada in 1992, the Atlantic Coast
Lecturer in 1993, Chaire Bruylants Award Lecturer at Louvaine-
La-Neuve/Belgium and Sixth Henry G. Kuivila Lecturer at the
State University of New York at Albany in 1994, and Adolf
Steinhofer Foundation Award Lecturer at the University of
Kaiserslautern/Grmany, Sandoz Foundation Lecturer at the
University of Regensburg/Germany, Moles (Bayer) Lecturer at
Cornell University, Abbott Lecturer at the University of Chicago,
and Wilson Baker Lecturer at the University of Bristol in 1995.
Professor Stoddart has published more than 350
communications, papers, reviews, and monographs and has
wide ranging interests in supramolecular science. He is at
present developing the transfer of concepts such as
self-assembly between the life sciences and materials science. The
template-directed synthesis of unnatural products with
prescribed functions is being pursued within the context of
gaining fundamental understanding about the nature of the
noncovalent bond.