Biography:Jean-Marie Lehn

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Short description: French chemist, Nobel laureate (born 1939)
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn par Claude Truong-Ngoc octobre 2018.jpg
Lehn in 2018
Born (1939-09-30) 30 September 1939 (age 84)
Rosheim, Bas-Rhin, France
NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversity of Strasbourg
Known forCryptands
Awards
  • Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1987)
  • Davy Medal (1997)
  • ForMemRS (1993)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsSupramolecular chemistry
Institutions
  • University of Strasbourg
  • Collège de France
ThesisRésonance magnétique nucléaire de triterpènes (1963)
Doctoral advisorGuy Ourisson
Doctoral studentsJean-Pierre Sauvage

Jean-Marie Lehn (born 30 September 1939)[2] is a French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. Lehn was an early innovator in the field of supramolecular chemistry, i.e., the chemistry of host–guest molecular assemblies created by intermolecular interactions, and continues to innovate in this field. He described the process by which molecules recognize each other. Drugs, for example, "know" which cell to destroy and which to let live.[3] (As of January 2006) his group has published 790 peer-reviewed articles in chemistry literature.[2]

A circular helical assembly reported by Jean-Marie Lehn et al. in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 1996, 35, 1838–1840.
Crystal structure of a foldamer reported by Lehn et al. in Helv. Chim. Acta., 2003, 86, 1598–1624.

Biography

Early years

Lehn was born in Rosheim, Alsace, France to Pierre and Marie Lehn. He is of Alsatian German descent. His father was a baker, but because of his interest in music, he later became the city organist. Lehn also studied music, saying that it became his major interest after science. He has continued to play the organ throughout his professional career as a scientist. His high school studies in Obernai, from 1950 to 1957, included Latin, Greek, German, and English languages, French literature, and he later became very keen of both philosophy and science, particularly chemistry. In July 1957, he obtained the baccalauréat in philosophy, and in September of the same year, the baccalauréat in Natural Sciences.

At the University of Strasbourg, although he considered studying philosophy, he ended up taking courses in physical, chemical and natural sciences, attending the lectures of Guy Ourisson, and realizing that he wanted to pursue a research career in organic chemistry. He joined Ourisson's lab, working his way to the Ph.D. There, he was in charge of the lab's first NMR spectrometer, and published his first scientific paper, which pointed out an additivity rule for substituent induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives. He obtained his Ph.D., and went to work for a year at Robert Burns Woodward's laboratory at Harvard University, working among other things on the synthesis of vitamin B12.[4]

Career

In 1966, he was appointed a position as maître de conférences (assistant professor) at the Chemistry Department of the University of Strasbourg. His research focused on the physical properties of molecules, synthesizing compounds specifically designed for exhibiting a given property, in order to better understand how that property was related to structure.

In 1968, he achieved the synthesis of cage-like molecules, comprising a cavity inside which another molecule could be lodged. Organic chemistry enabled him to engineer cages with the desired shape, thus only allowing a certain type of molecule to lodge itself in the cage. This was the premise for an entire new field in chemistry, sensors. Such mechanisms also play a great role in molecular biology.

These cryptands, as Lehn dubbed them, became his main center of interest, and led to his definition of a new type of chemistry, "supramolecular chemistry", which instead of studying the bonds inside one molecule, looks at intermolecular attractions, and what would be later called "fragile objects", such as micelles, polymers, or clays.

In 1980, he was elected to become a teacher at the prestigious Collège de France, and in 1987 was awarded the Nobel Prize, alongside Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen for his works on cryptands.

He is currently a member of the Reliance Innovation Council which was formed by Reliance Industries Limited, India.[5]

(As of 2021), Lehn has an h-index of 154 according to Google Scholar[6] and of 137 (946 documents) according to Scopus.[7]

Legacy

In 1987, Pierre Boulez dedicated a very short piano work Fragment d‘une ébauche to Lehn on the occasion of his Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[8]

Personal life

Lehn was married in 1965 to Sylvie Lederer, and together they had two sons, David and Mathias.[4][9]

Lehn is an atheist.[10]

Honors and awards

Lehn has won numerous awards and honors including:[2] File:Science and Peace - Jean-Marie Lehn.webm


French awards and decorations

  • CNRS Gold medal (1981; Silver Medal: 1972; Bronze Medal: 1963)
  • Knight of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (1989)
  • Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite (1993; Knight: 1976)
  • Grand Officer of the Légion d'Honneur (2014; Commander: 1996; Officer: 1988; Knight: 1983)[11]

Other international and national awards

  • Elected an International Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1980)[12]
  • Elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1980)[13]
  • Humboldt Prize (1983)
  • Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1983)[14]
  • Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1987)
  • Elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society (1987)[15]
  • Pour le Mérite (1990)[16]
  • Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1993[1]
  • The Davy Medal of the Royal Society (1997)
  • Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (2001)[17]
  • Grand Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit of Romania (2004)
  • Gutenberg Lecture Award (2006)[18]
  • ISA Medal for Science (2006)[19]
  • Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2009)[11]
  • Order of the Rising Sun (Gold and Silver Star) of Japan (2019)[11]


Honorary degrees

Lehn received numerous Honorary Doctorates (25, (As of January 2006)),[2] from:


  1. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1984[2]
  2. Autonomous University of Madrid, 1985[2]
  3. Georg-August University of Göttingen, 1987[2]
  4. Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1987[2]
  5. University of Crete (Iraklion University), 1989[2]
  6. Università degli Studi di Bologna, 1989[2]
  7. Charles University of Prague, 1990[2]
  8. University of Sheffield, 1991[2]
  9. University of Twente, 1991[20][2]
  10. University of Athens, 1992[2]
  11. National Technical University of Athens (Polytechnical University of Athens), 1992[2]
  12. Illinois Wesleyan University, 1995[2]
  13. Université de Montréal, 1995[2]
  14. University of Bielefeld, 1998[2]
  15. Honorary Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 1998[2]
  16. Honorary Professor, Southeast University, Nanjing, 1998[2]
  17. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 1998[2]
  18. Faculté des Sciences Appliquées, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1999[2]
  19. Nagoya University, 2000[2]
  20. Université de Sherbrooke, 2000[2]
  21. Università di Trieste, 2001[2]
  22. Honorary Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2003[2]
  23. Honorary Professor, Nanjing University, 2003[2]
  24. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2003[2]
  25. University of St. Andrews, 2004[2]
  26. Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, 2005[21][2]
  27. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Technical University, St Petersburg), 2005[2]
  28. Masaryk University, Brno, 2005[2]
  29. Honorary Professor, Beijing University, 2005[2]
  30. Kyushu University, 2005[2]
  31. Moscow State University, 2006[22]
  32. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2006[22]
  33. Kazan Federal University, 2006[22]
  34. Novosibirsk State University, 2006[22]
  35. Honorary Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 2007[22]
  36. Honorary Professor, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, 2007[22]
  37. Special Honorary Professorship, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, 2008
  38. University of Patras, 2008[22]
  39. Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 2008[22]
  40. University of Basilicata, Potenza, 2008[22]
  41. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 2009[22]
  42. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2009[22]
  43. University of Ljubljana, 2009[22]
  44. City University of Hong Kong, 2010[22]
  45. Queen's University Belfast, 2012[22]
  46. Honorary Professor, Novosibirsk State University, 2012[22]
  47. Honorary Professor, Xiamen University, 2012[22]
  48. Honorary Professor, Jilin University, 2013[22]
  49. Honorary Professor, Shanxi University, 2013[22]
  50. University of Oxford, 2014[23]
  51. Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), 2015[22]
  52. University of Málaga, 2015[22]
  53. Honorary Professor, Kyushu University, 2016[22]
  54. Honorary Professor, China Pharmaceutical University, 2016[22]
  55. Honorary Professor, Wuhan University of Technology, 2016[22]
  56. Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, 2017[22]
  57. University of Cambridge, 2017[24]
  58. New York University, 2017[22]
  59. University of Bucharest, 2018[22]
  60. University of Vienna, 2019[25]
  61. University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, 2019[26]


Books

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Professor Jean-Marie Lehn ForMemRS". London: Royal Society. https://royalsociety.org/people/jean-marie-lehn-11805/. 
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 "Jean-Marie Lehn – Curriculum Vitae". NobelPrize.org. Stockholm: Nobel Media AB. 2018. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1987/lehn/cv/. 
  3. ↑ (in cs) Jean-Marie Lehn – Hyde Park Civilizace | Česká televize, https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/218411058091215/, retrieved 2023-08-10 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Jean-Marie Lehn – Biographical". NobelPrize.org. Stockholm: Nobel Media AB. 2018. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1987/lehn/auto-biography/. 
  5. ↑ "Reliance Innovation Council India – Raghunath Mashelkar – Mukesh Ambani – Jean-Marie Lehn – Robert Grubbs – George Whitesides – Gary Hamel – William Haseltine". http://www.ril.com/OurCompany/Innovation.aspx. 
  6. ↑ {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  7. ↑ Jean-Marie Lehn publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (Subscription content?)
  8. ↑ "Boulez: Fragment d'une ébauche" (in de). https://www.universaledition.com/fragment-d-une-ebauche-fuer-klavier-boulez-pierre-ue36098. 
  9. ↑ Lehn, Jean-Marie (24 December 2000). "Interview". Advanced Materials 12 (24): 1897. https://application.wiley-vch.de/vch/journals/2089/interviews2001/interv24_01.pdf. Retrieved 31 March 2019. 
  10. ↑ Masood, Ehsan (22 July 2006). "Islam's reformers". Prospect. http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/islamsreformers/. "It is a scene I won't forget in a hurry: Jean-Marie Lehn, French winner of the Nobel prize in chemistry, defending his atheism at a packed public conference at the new Alexandria Library in Egypt." 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Jean-Marie Lehn". 2018. http://www.usias.fr/en/chairs/jean-marie-lehn/. 
  12. ↑ "Jean-Marie P. Lehn". http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/45983.html. 
  13. ↑ "Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn". 23 July 2023. https://www.amacad.org/person/jean-marie-pierre-lehn. 
  14. ↑ "J.M. Lehn". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/4458. 
  15. ↑ "APS Member History". https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Jean-Marie+Lehn&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced. 
  16. ↑ "Pour le Mérite: Jean-Marie Lehn". www.orden-pourlemerite.de. 2018. http://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/sites/default/files/vita/lehn_vita.pdf. 
  17. ↑ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (in de). p. 1443. http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf. 
  18. ↑ "Gutenberg Lecture Award to Nobel Laureate Jean-Marie Lehn". Mainz: Gutenberg University. 16 May 2006. https://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/78742.php. 
  19. ↑ "ISA Medal for Science 2006 to Jean Marie Lehn". unibo.it. Bologna: University of Bologna. 4 April 2006. http://www.isa.unibo.it/en/events/isa-medal-for-science-2006-to-jean-marie-lehn. 
  20. ↑ "Honorary Doctor Jean-Marie Lehn". https://www.utwente.nl/academischeplechtigheden/en/honorary-doctorates/lehn/. 
  21. ↑ "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh & Scottish Borders: Annual Review 2004". http://www1.hw.ac.uk/annual-review/2005/people-lynn2.html. 
  22. ↑ 22.00 22.01 22.02 22.03 22.04 22.05 22.06 22.07 22.08 22.09 22.10 22.11 22.12 22.13 22.14 22.15 22.16 22.17 22.18 22.19 22.20 22.21 22.22 22.23 22.24 22.25 "Jean-Marie Lehn Doctor Honoris Causa". University of Bucharest. Bucharest. 2018. https://unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2018/05/Brosura-DHC-Jean-Marie-Lehn.pdf. 
  23. ↑ "Encaenia and Honorary degrees 2014". ox.ac.uk. Oxford. 2014. http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/The-University-Year/Encaenia/2014. 
  24. ↑ "Honorary Degrees 2017". cam.ac.uk. Cambridge. 2017. https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/honorary-degrees-2017. 
  25. ↑ "Ehrendoktorat Jean-Marie Lehn". chemie.univie.ac.at. Vienna. 2019. https://chemie.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/ehrendoktorate/jean-marie-lehn/. 
  26. ↑ "J.-M. Lehn receives honorary doctorate from UCT Prague". Prague. 26 June 2019. https://www.vscht.cz/press/press-release/j-m-lehn-receives-honorary-doctorate-from-uct-prague. 

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