Jean-Pierre Sauvage#
| Membership Number: | 5206 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Professor Emeritus (University of Strasbourg)
- 2010 - 2012 Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Northwestern
- 2009 - 2010 Visiting Professor at University of Zurich
- 1979 - 2009 CNRS Director of Research
- 1981 - 1984 University Professor
- 1971 - 1979 CNRS Research Fellow
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular topology and molecular machines
Honours and Awards
- 1978 Bronze Medal from the CNRS
- 1979 French Chemical Society Award in Coordination Chemistry
- 1980 Jean-Baptiste Dumas Award from the French Academy of Sciences
- 1987 French Chemical Society Award in Organic Chemistry
- 1988 CNRS Silver Medal
- 1990 Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- 1991 Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry
- 1994 Prelog Gold Medal, ETH-Zürich (Switzerland)
- 1995 World Nessim Habif Award, University of Geneva
- 1997 Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Centenary Lecturer and Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom)
- 2000 Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
- 2005 Pierre Süe Prize of the French Society of Chemistry
- 2005 Catalan Sabatier Prize of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry (RSEQ)
- 2007 Chair of the 21st Solvay Conference in Chemistry, "From noncovalent assemblies to molecular machines", Brussels, 28 November – 1st December
- 2008 RB Woodward Award in Porphyrin Chemistry
- 2009 Japan Coordination Chemistry Award
- 2010 Honorary Doctorate, University of Zurich
- 2012 "Luigi Tartufari" International Prize, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy)
- 2012 Blaise Pascal Medal 2012 in Chemistry of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Elected as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2014 "Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie"
- 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with J. Fraser Stoddart and Ben Feringa "for their design and production of molecular machines"
- 2016 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (U-K)
- 2016 Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2017 Grand Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite
- 2017 Honorary Doctorate, University of Athens (Greece)
- 2018 Honorary Doctorate, Uppsala University (Sweden)
- 2018 Foreign Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
- 2019 Honorary Doctorate, Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
- 2019 Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
