| Jean-Marie Lehn  Born: 30-Sep-1939
Birthplace: Rosheim, France
Gender: Male
Religion: Agnostic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: France
Executive summary: Synthesis of molecules French chemist Jean-Marie Lehn extended Charles J. Pedersen discovery of crown ethers (macrocyclic compounds containing repeat units of -CH2CH2O-, or any similar compound containing nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus or silicon atoms instead of or in addition to oxygen atoms) from two-dimensional rings into a three dimensional understanding of molecular structure. Lehn synthesized a three-dimensional molecule that bound to neurotransmitters in the brain, a precursor to artificially-engineered enzymes with more desirable functions than natural enzymes. His work showed that crown ethers could be combined into a complex structures, and established that cryptands (polycyclic compounds consisting of three chains attached at matching nitrogen atoms) can bind metal cations with more selectivity than can crown ethers. With Pedersen and Donald J. Cram, Lehn won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1987. Father: Pierre Lehn (baker, organist)
Mother: Marie
Wife: Sylvie Lederer (m. 1965, two sons)
Son: David (b. 1966)
Son: Mathias (b. 1969)
High School: Collège Freppel, Obernai, France (1957)
University: BS, University of Strasbourg (1960)
University: PhD, University of Strasbourg (1963)
Scholar: French National Center for Scientific Research (1960-66)
Scholar: Harvard University (1963-64)
Teacher: University of Strasbourg (1966-70)
Teacher: Chemistry, Harvard University (1970)
Professor: Chemistry, Harvard University (1970-79)
Professor: Chemistry, Collège de France (1979-)
CNRS Bronze Medal 1963
FCS Adrian Prize 1968
CNRS Silver Medal 1972
Ordre National du Mérite Chevalier, 1976
FCS Berr Prize 1978
CNRS Gold Medal 1981
Gold Medal of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences 1981
SCS Philippus Paracelsus Medal 1982
French Legion of Honor Chevalier, 1983
EGU Alexander von Humboldt Medal 1983
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1987 (with Donald J. Cram and Charles J. Pedersen)
French Legion of Honor Officer, 1988
GCS Karl Ziegler Memorial Prize 1989
Ordre des Palmes Académiques Chevalier. 1989
Ordre National du Mérite Officer, 1993
Ettore Majorana-Erice Science for Peace Prize 1994
French Legion of Honor Commander, 1996
Davy Medal 1997
FCS Lavoisier Medal 1997
SCI Messel Medal 1998
Austrian Medal for Science and the Arts 2001
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award 2003
ISA Medal for Science 2007
Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico Corresponding Member, 1991
Academy of Sciences for the Developing World 1996
Accademia dei Lincei Foreign Member, 1985
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Foreign Member, 1980
American Association for the Advancement of Science Foreign Member, 2003
American Philosophical Society Foreign Member, 1987
Belgian Royal Society of Chemistry Foreign Member, 1987
Chemical Society of Japan Foreign Member, 2002
Chinese Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 2004
European Academy of Sciences 1987
French Academy of Sciences 1985
French Chemical Society 2005
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Foreign Member, 1985
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 2001
Indian Academy of Sciences Foreign Fellow, 1991
Institute of Physics Foreign Member, 1999
Institution of Chemical Engineers Foreign Member, 2003
International Academy of Humanism 2001
Korean Academy of Science and Technology Foreign Member, 1995
National Academy of Sciences Foreign Associate, 1980
Polish Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 1991
Pontifical Academy of Sciences 1996
Romanian Academy Foreign Member, 1993
Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 1983
Royal Society Foreign Member, 1993
Royal Society of Chemistry Foreign Member, 1987
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Foreign Member, 2003
Russian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 1999
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 1992
Author of books:
Alkali Metal Complexes with Organic Ligands (1973, chemistry)
Supramolecular Chemistry: Concepts and Perspectives (1995, chemistry)
Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry (1996, chemistry; eleven volumes)
Experiments in Green and Sustainable Chemistry (2009, chemistry; with Dietmar Kennepohl and Herbert W. Roesky)
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