Fraser Stoddart
James Fraser Stoddart is a British chemist at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles. He works in the area of supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology.
Biography
J Fraser Stoddard was born 24 May 1942 in Edinburgh Scotland. He holds a B.Sc. (1964), a Ph.D. (1966) and a D.Sc. (1980) from Edinburgh University. In 1967 he held a NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queens’ University/Kingston/Ontario and in 1970 a ICI Research Fellowship at the University of Sheffield. From 1970 to 1978 Stoddart was a lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Sheffield and from 1978 to 1981 he worked on secondment to the ICI Corporate Laboratory in Runcorn. Between 1981 and 1990 he was reader in Chemistry, again at the University of Sheffield and in 1990 he became a professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. Between 1993 and 1997 he was Head of School of Chemistry at this institute. In 1994 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1997 he went to the United States and held the Saul Winstein Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2003 Stoddart accepted the Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences at University of California at Los Angeles. His abbreviated C.V. lists over 70 awards, fellowships and lectureships around the world.
Research interests
His research interests are molecular Borromean rings, catenanes, rotaxanes, chemically modified cyclodextrins, chirality, concept transfer from the life sciences into materials science, dendrimers, dynamic covalent chemistry, mechanically interlocked compounds, molecular electronics, molecular machines, molecular recognition processes, molecular switches with bistability and metastability, the nature of the mechanical bond, soft lithography, self-assembly processes, supramolecular polymers, stereochemistry, template-directed synthesis and chemical topology.