Interview with Nobel Laureate Fraser Stoddart

Sir James Fraser Stoddart

Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University

Fraser Stoddart studied at the University of Edinburgh where he received his PhD in 1966. He has then been working at Queens' University, Kingston, Ontario in Canada, at the University of Sheffield, ICI Corporate Laboratory and University of Birmingham in Great Britain, and at the University of California Los Angeles and Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois in the USA. In 2016 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.