Jean Fréchet

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Jean MJ Fréchet (born August 19, 1944 in Chalon-sur-Saône , France ) is an American chemist and professor emeritus of organic chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley .

life and career

Fréchet studied at the Institut de Chimie et Physique Industrielle (today École supérieure de chimie physique électronique de Lyon ) in Lyon (graduated as a chemical engineer in 1967) and then went to the USA, where he studied at the State University of New York (College of Environmental Science and Forestry) and Syracuse University in 1969 and received his doctorate in chemistry from Syracuse University in 1971 under Conrad Schuerch with the thesis Solid phase synthesis of oligosaccharides . From 1973 he was Assistant Professor, from 1978 Associate Professor and from 1982 Professor of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa . In 1987 he became IBM Professor of Polymer Chemistry at Cornell University , where he received the Peter J. Debye Chair in 1995 . In 1997 he became professor in Berkeley, from 2003 as Henry Rapoport Professor of Organic Chemistry and from 2005 also as Professor of Chemical Engineering. He is also Head of Materials Synthesis at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Director of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry at their Molecular Foundry . He is currently (2016) Vice President for Research at King Abdullah University for Science and Technology on the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia .

In 1979 and 1983 he was visiting scholar at the IBM Research Center in San José and from 1980 to 1989 he was a consultant for the Xerox Corporation.

He is a US citizen.

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He deals with organic synthesis and polymer chemistry with application in nanosciences and nanotechnology and especially the design and synthesis of functional macromolecules. In particular, he developed synthetic methods for dendrimers . Around 1980 he developed photoresistive materials for semiconductor production (lithography) using the chemically amplified resist process, together with Grant Willson (University of Texas at Austin) and Hiroshi Ito (IBM). This only made chip production possible with structures below 250 nanometers. He has published over 800 articles (2012) and holds over 70 US patents. In 2011 he was the 16th most frequently cited chemist worldwide with an H index of 105.

Awards and memberships

Frechet has multiple honorary doctorates (including Lyon, Ottawa). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2000), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000), the National Academy of Engineering (2000), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000), the Academia Europaea (2009) and Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS, 2010). In 1986 he received the Arthur K. Doolittle Award , 1996 the ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science, 2000 the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry , 2007 the Dickson Prize in Science , also in 2007 the Arthur C. Cope Award from ACS, and in 2009 the Herman Mark Award , 2010 the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea and the Grand Prix de la Maison de la Chimie in Paris. In 2013 he received the Japan Prize and in 2019 the International König Faisal Prize in Chemistry, and in 2020 the Charles Stark Draper Prize .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Jean MJ Fréchet at academictree.org, accessed on February 6, 2018.
  3. ^ CJ Hawker, J. Fréchet Preparation of polymers with controlled molecular architecture. A new convergent approach to dendritic macromolecules , J. Am. Chem. Soc. 112, 1990, p. 7638
  4. ↑ Appreciation Japan Prize
personal data
SURNAME Fréchet, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fréchet, Jean MJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Chalon-sur-Saône , France