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| birth_place = Paris, France| death_date = | death_place = | residence = | nationality = FrenchEcole européenne de chimie, polymères et matériaux>ECPM Strasbourg| field = coordination chemistry, supramolecular chemistryUniversity of Strasbourg>Strasbourg Universityclass=nowrap|

• French Academy of Sciences (1990)
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2016){edih}|doctoral_advisor = Jean-Marie Lehn|thesis_title = Les Diaza-polyoxa-macrobicycles et leur cryptates|thesis_url =www.tib.eu/en/search/id/TIBKAT%3A499936833/Les-Diaza-polyoxa-macrobicycles-et-leur-cryptates/|thesis_year = 1971

}} Jean-Pierre Sauvage ({{IPA-fr|ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ sovaʒ}}; born 21 October 1944) is a French coordination chemist working at Strasbourg University. He graduated from the National School of Chemistry of Strasbourg (now known as ECPM Strasbourg), in 1967.WEB,asso-aics.unistra.fr/accueil/jean-pierre-sauvage.html, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Nobel de Chimie – AICS, He has specialized in supramolecular chemistry for which he has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa.

Biography

Sauvage was born in Paris in 1944,WEB,www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2016/sauvage-facts.html, Jean-Pierre Sauvage – Facts, 5 October 2016, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 9 October 2016, and earned his PhD degree from the Université Louis-Pasteur under the supervision of Jean-Marie Lehn, himself a 1987 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. During his doctoral work, he contributed to the first syntheses of the cryptand ligands.JOURNAL, B., Dietrich, J. M., Lehn, J.P., Sauvage, Les Cryptates, Tetrahedron Letters, 1969, 10, 34, 2889–92, 10.1016/S0040-4039(01)88300-3, After postdoctoral research with Malcolm L. H. Green, he returned to Strasbourg, where he is now emeritus professor.Sauvage’s scientific work has focused on creating molecules that mimic the functions of machines by changing their conformation in response to an external signal.WEB,www.leru.org/index.php/public/news/jean-pierre-sauvage-university-of-strasbourg-nobel-laureate-for-chemistry, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, University of Strasbourg, Nobel laureate for chemistry, 7 October 2016, League of European Research Universities, 9 October 2016, 10 October 2016,www.leru.org/index.php/public/news/jean-pierre-sauvage-university-of-strasbourg-nobel-laureate-for-chemistry/," title="web.archive.org/web/20161010130829www.leru.org/index.php/public/news/jean-pierre-sauvage-university-of-strasbourg-nobel-laureate-for-chemistry/,">web.archive.org/web/20161010130829www.leru.org/index.php/public/news/jean-pierre-sauvage-university-of-strasbourg-nobel-laureate-for-chemistry/, dead, His Nobel Prize work was done in 1983, when he was the first to synthesize a catenane, a complex of two interlocking ring-shaped molecules, which were bonded mechanically rather than chemically. Because these two rings can move relative to each other, the Nobel Prize cited this as a vital initial effort towards making molecular machine. The other two recipients of the prize followed up by later creating a rotaxane and a molecular rotor.WEB,www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2016/press.html, The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Press Release, 5 October 2016, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 9 October 2016, JOURNAL, Van Noorden, Richard, Castelvecchi, Davide, 5 October 2016, World’s tiniest machines win chemistry Nobel, Nature, 538, 7624, 10.1038/nature.2016.20734, 152–153, 27734892, 2016Natur.538..152V, free, Other research includes electrochemical reduction of CO2 and models of the photosynthetic reaction center.JOURNAL, Collin, J.P., Sauvage, J.-P., Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide mediated by molecular catalysts, Coord. Chem. Rev., 1989, 93, 2, 245–68, 10.1016/0010-8545(89)80018-9, A large theme of his work is molecular topology, specifically mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures. He has described syntheses of catenanes and molecular knots based on coordination complexes.JOURNAL, Dietrich-Buchecker, C., Jimenez-Molero, M.C., Sartor, V., Sauvage, J.-P., Rotaxanes and catenanes as prototypes of molecular machines and motors, Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2003, 75, 10, 1383–93, 10.1351/pac200375101383, free, He was elected a correspondent member of the French Academy of Sciences on 26 March 1990, and became a member on 24 November 1997. He is currently emeritus professor at the University of Strasbourg (Unistra).Laboratoire de Chimie Organo-Minérale (Jean-Pierre SAUVAGE), isis.unistra.fr. Retrieved 24 December 2016He shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines” with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa.NEWS, Staff, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016,www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2016/press.html, 5 October 2016, Nobel Foundation, 5 October 2016, NEWS, Chang, Kenneth, Chan, Sewell, 3 Makers of ‘World’s Smallest Machines’ Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry,www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/science/nobel-prize-chemistry.html, 5 October 2016, The New York Times, 5 October 2016, WEB, Davis, Nicola, Sample, Ian, live, The Guardian, 5 October 2016,www.theguardian.com/science/live/2016/oct/05/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-2016-to-be-announced-live, 5 October 2016, He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2019.WEB,www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2019-nas-election.html, 2019 NAS Election, National Academy of Sciences, 30 April 2019, {{As of|2021}}, Sauvage has an h-index of 109 according to Google Scholar{{Google Scholar id}} and of 100 according to Scopus.{{Scopus id|35515477700}}

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• A Chem Soc Rev themed issue dedicated to Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Includes The master of Chemical Topology; accessed 13 October 2016.
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