Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn (born September 30, 1939 in Rosheim , Alsace ) is a French chemist. Together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen , he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 for his work in the research field of supramolecular chemistry .
Life
Jean-Marie Lehn was born on September 30, 1939 in the city of Rosheim (France). His father, Pierre Lehn, was a baker and had a great passion for music. His mother, Marie Lehn, was a housewife and took care of the bakery. Jean-Marie Lehn had four brothers, of whom he was the eldest. Together with the next-born, he often helped out in the shop and supported his mother. Like his father, he played the organ and piano as his passion for science grew. From 1950 to 1957 he attended high school in Latin, Greek, German, English, French literature, philosophy and natural sciences. In July 1957 he obtained his Baccalauréat ès lettres and in September of the same year also in Sciences . He then studied at the University of Strasbourg , where he obtained his License ès Sciences in 1960 . He further specialized in physics, chemistry, and natural sciences and in 1960 became a junior member of the Center national de la recherche scientifique . A short time later (1961) he wrote his first scientific paper on the induced shift of proton NMR signals on substituents of steroid derivatives. He then did his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Strasbourg in 1963 with Guy Ourisson and then went on a research stay at Harvard University , where he worked on the synthesis of vitamin B12 together with Nobel Prize winner Robert B. Woodward . This phase should be one of the crucial phases in his scientific life. He took a course in quantum mechanics and carried out his first calculations together with Roald Hoffmann - thereby he witnessed the development of the Woodward-Hoffmann rules . In 1965 he married Sylvie Lederer, with whom he had two sons, David (born 1966) and Mathias (born 1969).
In 1966 he became maître de conférences (equivalent to assistant professor ) and in 1970 professor of chemistry at the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg ; since 1979 he has also been a professor for molecular interactions at the Collège de France in Paris . He is also one of the directors of the Institute for Nanotechnology in Karlsruhe and visiting professor at the ETH Zurich and at the universities of Harvard, Cambridge, Barcelona and Frankfurt.
In 1980 Lehn was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences . In 1987 he was accepted into the American Philosophical Society . He is an external member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 1985) and the Academia Europaea (since 1988), honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy (since 1999), corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and furthermore in around 50 other scientific associations and institutes.
power
Lehn published more than 400 scientific articles and is one of the pioneers in the emergence of the new research field of supramolecular chemistry . In contrast to molecular chemistry, the units of which are the atoms held together by covalent bonds, in supramolecular chemistry complex units are created through associations of several molecules, which are bonded to one another with non-covalent intermolecular forces. The chemistry of "self-organizing" processes and adaptive chemistry later developed from supramolecular chemistry.
In 1982 Lehn and Raymond Ziessel did pioneering work in part of artificial photosynthesis , the catalytic reduction of carbon dioxide with the absorption of visible light with organic rubidium complexes.
Awards
Lehn was awarded the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize in 1982. Together with Donald J. Cram and Charles Pedersen, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 for the development and use of molecules with structure-specific interaction of high selectivity and the study of the polycyclic cryptate cage molecules.
In 2001 he was honored with the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class .
Other prizes include: Paracelsus Prize, Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , Karl Ziegler Prize , Ettore Majorana Prize , Davy Medal of the Royal Society, the Robert Robinson Award , the Lavoisier Medal of the Société Française de Chimie. In 2012 he received the Sir Derek H. Barton Gold Medal .
He holds honorary doctorates from over twenty universities, including the University of Vienna (2019).
In 2014 he was appointed Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor . In 2015 he was Lars Onsager Lecturer .
Work areas
Supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition and self-organization, bio-organic chemistry, nanotechnology
Works (selection)
- J.-M. Lehn: Supramolecular Chemistry - Concepts and Perspectives , Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 978-3-527-29311-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean-Marie Lehn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nobel e-museum, Jean-Marie Lehn - autobiography
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1987 award ceremony for Jean-Marie Lehn (English)
- Self-organization through design and selection (Rudolf Criegee Lecture 2004, University of Karlsruhe)
Individual evidence
- ^ According to CV at nobelprize.org
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Jean-Marie Lehn at academictree.org, accessed on February 25, 2018.
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter L. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved September 7, 2017 .
- ^ Members Directory: Jean-Marie P. Lehn. National Academy of Sciences, accessed September 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Member Histrory: Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 27, 2018 .
- ^ Members: Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn. Royal Irish Academy, accessed May 9, 2019 .
- ^ Member entry of Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on October 11, 2017.
- ↑ Lehn, Ziessel: Photochemical Generation of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen-by Reduction of Carbon Dioxide and Water Under Visible Light Irradiation , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Vol 79, 1982, pp 701-704
- ↑ University of Vienna awards honorary doctorate to chemist and Nobel Prize winner Jean-Marie Lehn . Article dated March 1, 2019, accessed March 6, 2019.
- ↑ Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace of April 20, 2014: Le prix Nobel Jean-Marie Lehn grand officier de la légion d'honneur , accessed on May 18, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lehn, Jean-Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lehn, Jean-Marie Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosheim , Alsace |