Talk:Fraser Stoddart

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Content under research interests heading mainly refers to his group and not to him. --M_stone 00:54, 12 August 2006

He has no wife and no children and is a bo.... chemist with s... loads of awards and a near miss on the noble prize. I hope we can make a little bit more out of him than that. There must be funny stories about his lectures or a privat life or some interests more private than supramolecular chemistry. - For my tast the near miss on the noble price does not need a whole section and the award list looks a little bit to much. There are awareds mentioned which fit to a 200page biography not to a 2 page article. The citation index is numbers which give only information to the people already know the stupid business to have citations as only measurment that you are good.--Stone 18:06, 14 August 2006 (UTC) --- Interesting interview with Sir Fraser Stoddart http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/January/04010701.asp ---

All good points. I am always reluctant to delete content, but I am not really sure what purpose it serves here. I think the ISI, Impact Factor, and Awards might be condensed into an actual readable paragraph. I think that the research keywords is also excessive. M stone 19:47, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

It appears that much of the content here is copied directly from his website. If the list of awards is listed there than I think it can just be linked to. M stone 19:55, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

From one stone to another, If we find a little more about him it gets better balanced. Thanks! --Stone 21:19, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

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Education and early life
Fraser Stoddart was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 24 May 1942, the only child of Tom and Jean Stoddart. He was brought up as a tenant farmer on Edgelaw Farm, a small community consisting of three families. Sir Fraser Stoddart professes to a passion for jigsaw puzzles and construction toys in his formative years, which he believes was the basis for his interest in molecular construction. Fraser Stoddart was a shy and serene boy and young man.

He received early schooling at the local village school in Carrington, Midlothian, before going on to Melville College in Edinburgh. He started at the University of Edinburgh in 1960 where he initially studied chemistry, physics and mathematics. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry 1964 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in 1966 for research on natural gums in Acacias supervised by Sir Edmund Langley Hirst and D M W Anderson from the University of Edinburgh.

Career
In 1967, he went to Queen's University (Canada) as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow. In 1970 he moved to the University of Sheffield as an Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Research Fellow, before joining the academic staff as a lecturer in chemistry. In early 1978 he was a Science Research Council Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Later in 1978, he was transferred to the ICI Corporate Laboratory in Runcorn, England where he first started investigating the mechanically interlocked molecules that would eventually become molecular machines. At the end of the three year secondment he returned to Sheffield where he was promoted to a Readership in 1982.

He was awarded a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1980 for his research into stereochemistry beyond the molecule. In 1990, he moved to the Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Birmingham and was Head of the School of Chemistry there (1993–97) before moving to UCLA as the Saul Winstein Professor of Chemistry in 1997, succeeding Nobel laureate Donald Cram.

In July 2002, he became the Acting Co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). In May 2003, he became the Fred Kavli Chair of NanoSystems Sciences and served from then through August 2007 as the Director of the CNSI.

In 2008, he established the Mechanostereochemistry Group and was named Board of Trustees Professor in Chemistry at Northwestern University. He went on to be the Director of the Center for the Chemistry of Integrated Systems (CCIS) at Northwestern University in 2010.

In 2017, Stoddart was appointed a part-time position at the University of New South Wales to establish his New Chemistry initiative at the UNSW School of Chemistry.

In 2019, Sir Fraser Stoddart introduced a premium skin care brand called Noble Panacea, which utilizes the organic molecular technology aspects of his work.

During 35 years, nearly 300 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers have been trained in his laboratories.

ISI ratings
As of 2022 Stoddart has an h-index of 175. As of 2016 he had published more than 1000 publications and holds at least ten patents. For the period from January 1997 to 31 August 2007, he was ranked by the Institute for Scientific Information as the third most cited chemist with a total of 14,038 citations from 304 papers at a frequency of 46.2 citations per paper.

The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) predicted that Fraser Stoddart was a likely laureate of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with George M. Whitesides and Seiji Shinkai for their contributions to molecular self-assembly. However, the Prize eventually went to Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon.

Awards and honors
Stoddart was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the New Year's Honours December 2006, by Queen Elizabeth II for Services to Chemistry and Molecular Nanotechnology.

In 2007, he received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science in recognition for his outstanding and pioneering work in molecular recognition and self-assembly, and the introduction of quick and efficient template-directed synthetic routes to mechanically interlocked molecular compounds, which have changed the way chemists think about molecular switches and machines.

In 2016, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

Personal life
Stoddart is an American and British citizen. Stoddart was married to Norma Agnes Scholan from in 1968 until her death in 2004 from cancer. Norma Stoddart obtained a PhD in biochemistry and helped support the research efforts of her husband at the Universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, and California, Los Angeles. Stoddart has two daughters; Fiona and Alison. Noblepanacea (talk) 15:12, 27 July 2023 (UTC)