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  • Jean-Marie Lehn
  • Jean-Marie Lehn (born September 30, 1939) is a French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his work in Chemistry, particularly his synthesis of the cryptands.

    His high school studies in Obernai, from 1950 to 1957, included Latin, Greek, German, and English languages, French literature, and he later became very keen of both philosophy and science, particularly chemistry. In July 1957, he obtained the baccalauréat in philosophy, and in September of the same year, the baccalauréat in Natural Sciences.
    He obtained his Ph.D., and went to work for a year at Robert Burns Woodward's laboratory at Harvard University, working among other things on the synthesis of vitamin B12.
    In 1966, he was appointed a position as maître de conférences (assistant professor) at the Chemistry Department of the University of Strasbourg.
    In 1968, he achieved the synthesis of cage-like molecules, comprising a cavity inside which another molecule could be lodged.
    In 1980, he was elected to become a teacher at the prestigious Collège de France, and in 1987 was awarded the Nobel Prize, alongside Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen for his works on cryptands.
    Honours and awards
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1987)
    Commander of the Légion d'Honneur (1996)
    Officer of the Ordre National du Mérite (1993)
    Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (1989)
    Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst, (first class) (2001)
    ISA Medal for Science, (2007)

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