The Growing Impact of the Mechanical Bond on Polymer and Materials Sciences
The Barnett F. Dodge Distinguished Lecture in Chemical Engineering
"The growing Impact of the Mechanical Bond on Polymer and Materials Sciences"
Sir Fraser Stoddart
2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry
Northwestern University
Fraser Stoddart, presently a Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, was previously (1997–2002) the Saul Winstein Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) before holding the Fred Kavli Chair of NanoSystems Sciences at UCLA while he was the Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) from 2002–2007. Stoddart has pioneered the development of the use of molecular recognition and self-assembly processes in template-directed protocols for the synthesis of mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs), such as catenanes and rotaxanes. These MIMs led to the design and syntheses of molecular shuttles, switches, and machines, such as artificial molecular pumps. Sir Fraser obtained all his degrees (BSc / PhD / DSc) from Edinburgh University and has spent time (1967–1970) at Queen's University in Canada, Imperial Chemical Industries' Corporate Laboratory (1978–1981), as well as at the Universities of Sheffield (1970–1990) and Birmingham (1990–1997) in the UK before moving to the US in 1997. He was made a Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in her 2007 New Year's Honors List for his services to chemistry and molecular nanotechnology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the German Academy (Leopoldina) of Natural Sciences, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Chemistry. His many awards include the King Faisal International Prize in Science (2007), the Albert Einstein World Prize in Nanotechnology (2007), the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2007), the Royal Medal (2010), and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2016). He was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2018 and a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018. During the past five decades, he has mentored 500 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from 50 different countries.
Host: Mingjiang.zhong@yale.edu
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
4:00PM
Davies Auditorium
15 Prospect Street
(another entrance at 10 Hillhouse Ave)
This series of lectures is named in honor of B.F.Dodge. He was born on November 29, 1895 in Akron, Ohio, and obtained his BS in ChE from MIT in 1917. Before joining the Yale Department of Chemical Engineering, Mr. Dodge worked as a chemical engineer with DuPont, first in the area of chemical explosives. In 1919, he was transferred to the main office as Assistant to the Manager of the Inspection/Standards Division, Chemical Department. From 1920 to 1922 Mr. Dodge was with Lewis Recovery Corporation, Boston, Mass.
In 1921 he became a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Harvard University, and from 1922-1925, the period of his Harvard PhD dissertation research on the thermodynamics of liquefied air, he also lectured at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He came to Yale in 1925 as Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1930 and, in 1935, to Professor. In 1931 he became Chairman of the Yale ChE Department, a post he held for thirty years.
In addition to his leadership roles at Yale, Professor Dodge served on many committees and was elected President of AIChE in 1955. He held 7 U.S. Patents, and published approximately 85 papers in technical journals, numerous book reviews, as well as one now classic book, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, in 1944 (McGraw Hill.)
The Barnett F. Dodge Lectures are made possible by The Goizueta Foundation through a gift to Yale University, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering.