Awards & Winners

Jean-Marie Lehn

Date of Birth 30-September-1939
Place of Birth Rosheim
(Bas-Rhin)
Nationality France
Profession Chemist, Professor
Jean-Marie Lehn 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. His group has published in excess of 900 peer-reviewed articles in chemistry literature.

Awards by Jean-Marie Lehn

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1987


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity)