Fraser Stoddart

Fraser Stoddart, presently a Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, was previously (1997–2002) the Saul Winstein Professor of Chemistry at UCLA, while holding the Fred Kavli Chair of NanoSystem Sciences at UCLA and directing the California NanoSystems Institute (2002–2007).

Dr. Stoddart has pioneered synthesis of two-state mechanically interlocked compounds (catenanes and rotaxanes), which are used in the fabrication of Molecular Electronic Devices and NanoElectroMechanical Systems. He obtained all his degrees from Edinburgh University and spent time at Queen’s University (Canada), Imperial Chemical Industries, and the Universities of Sheffield and Birmingham in the UK before moving to the US in 1997. He was honored in 2007 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Knight-Bachelor for his services to chemistry and molecular nanotechnology.'
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