J. Fraser Stoddart Biography

James Fraser Stoddart (b 1942) received his BSc (1964) and PhD (1966) degrees from Edinburgh University. In 1967 he went to Queen’s University (Canada) as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow and then in 1970 to Sheffield University as an Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Research Fellow before joining the academic staff as a Lecturer in Chemistry. He was a Science Research Council Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1978. After spending a sabbatical (1978-81) at the ICI Corporate Laboratory in Runcorn he returned to Sheffield where he was promoted to a Readership in 1982. He was awarded a DSc degree by Edinburgh in 1980 for his research into stereochemistry beyond the molecule. In 1990 he took up the Chair of Organic Chemistry at Birmingham University and was Head of the School of Chemistry there (1993-97) before moving to UCLA as the Saul Winstein Professor of Chemistry in 1997. In July 2002 he became the Acting Co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). On May 1 2003 he was appointed the Director of the CNSI and assumed the Fred Kavli Chair of NanoSystems Sciences. He stood down from the former on July 31 2007 and relinquished the latter on December 31 2007 in order to join the faculty at Northwestern University as a Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry on January 1 2008. On March 1 2008 he was appointed an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at UCLA. He is also Director of the Center for the Chemistry of Integrated Systems (CCIS) at Northwestern University.

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