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Position: Professor of Chemistry, Nobel Prize Winner
Nationality: French
Date of Birth: September 30, 1939
Degree: Doctorat ès Sciences, University of Strasbourg, France
Other
Memberships:
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Aventis, Strasbourg, France
Member of the Scientific Board of the Novartis Venture Fund, Basel, Switzerland
Awards: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1987)
Career:
Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn is a noted researcher in the field of chemistry, and was the co-recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on molecular recognition processes along with two US researchers,
Donald J. Cram and Charles J. Pedersen in 1987.
Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn is Professor at the Collège de France in Paris, where he holds the Chair of Chemistry
of Molecular Interactions.
Before joining the Collège de France in 1979, Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn was Professor of Chemistry of the
University Louis Pasteur and he still is Director of its Supramolecular Chemistry Laboratory in Strasbourg.
Between 1966 und 1969 he served as Assistant Professor at the University of Strasbourg.
Born in 1939 in Rosheim, France, Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn obtained his doctorate at the University of
Strasbourg in France in 1963. During his post-doctoral studies at Harvard University, he worked on the total
synthesis of Vitamin B-12.
Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, the Federal Institute of Technology
in Zurich as well as the Universities of Barcelona, Cambridge, Frankfurt and Karlsruhe. He has received
honorary degrees from a variety of institutions, and is member of many academies. He is the author of two
books, over 700 publications and 15 chapters within books. | 