Jean-Pierre Sauvage, University of Strasbourg, Nobel laureate for chemistry

 Jean-Pierre Sauvage, emeritus professor of the University of Strasbourg (a LERU university) and member of the Académie des Science has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2016. He shares this Prize with the Scot James Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University) and the Dutch Bernard Feringa (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen).
“We proudly received these great news. The honour we share with the CNRS will have a positive effect on our whole site”, expressed Michel Deneken, interim president of the University of Strasbourg. This distinction rewards the pioneer work on the design and synthesis of molecular machines. These compilations of tiny scale are capable to actuate movement in a controlled manner as response to diverse signals as UV light. More...