Makoto Fujita (chemist)

Makoto Fujita (藤田 誠) is a Japanese chemist who specializes in supramolecular coordination chemistry.

Overviews
He is a professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry at the University of Tokyo. He has published extensively on the multicomponent assembly of large coordination cages. Compounds designed and prepared in his research group are variously described as three-dimensional synthetic receptors, coordination assemblies, molecular paneling, molecular flasks, crystalline sponges, and coordination capsules.

He shared the 2018 Wolf Prize in Chemistry with Omar Yaghi "for conceiving metal-directed assembly principles leading to large highly porous complexes".

Recognition

 * 1994 – Progress Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
 * 2000 – Division Award of Chemical Society of Japan (Organic Chemistry)
 * 2001 – Japan IBM Science Prize
 * 2009 – The Commendation for Science and Technology by the MEXT Prizes for Science and Technology
 * 2010 – The 7th Leo Esaki Prize
 * 2010 – Thomson Reuters Research Front Award
 * 2011 – 3M Lectureship Award (The University of British Columbia)
 * 2012 – Kharasch Lecturers (The University of Chicago)
 * 2013 – Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
 * 2013 – The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award
 * 2013 – Merck-Karl Pfister Visiting Professorship (MIT Lectureship award)
 * 2014 – Medal with Purple Ribbon
 * 2014 – Fred Basolo Medal (Northwestern University)
 * 2018 – Wolf Prize in Chemistry
 * 2019 – Paul Karrer Gold Medal
 * 2020 – Clarivate Citation Laureate
 * 2020 – Chu-Nichi Culture Award
 * 2023 – Asahi Prize