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Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn, 2018
Born	30 September 1939 (1939-09-30) (age 80) Rosheim, Bas-Rhin, France
Nationality	France
Known for	Cryptands
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1987) Davy Medal (1997) ForMemRS (1993)
Scientific career
Fields	Supramolecular chemistry

Jean-Marie Lehn (born September 30, 1939) is a French chemist. He received the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald James Cram and Charles J. Pedersen. He specializes in organic chemistry.

He was born in Rosheim, France.

List of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1901–1925	van 't Hoff (1901) · E. Fischer (1902) · Arrhenius (1903) · Ramsay (1904) · von Baeyer (1905) · Moissan (1906) · Buchner (1907) · Rutherford (1908) · Ostwald (1909) · Wallach (1910) · Curie (1911) · Grignard / Sabatier (1912) · Werner (1913) · Richards (1914) · Willstätter (1915) · Haber (1918) · Nernst (1920) · Soddy (1921) · Aston (1922) · Pregl (1923) · Zsigmondy (1925)

1926–1950	Svedberg (1926) · Wieland (1927) · Windaus (1928) · Harden / von Euler-Chelpin (1929) · H. Fischer (1930) · Bosch / Bergius (1931) · Langmuir (1932) · Urey (1934) · F. Joliot-Curie / I. Joliot-Curie (1935) · Debye (1936) · Haworth / Karrer (1937) · Kuhn (1938) · Butenandt / Ružička (1939) · de Hevesy (1943) · Hahn (1944) · Virtanen (1945) · Sumner / Northrop / Stanley (1946) · Robinson (1947) · Tiselius (1948) · Giauque (1949) · Diels / Alder (1950)

1951–1975	McMillan / Seaborg (1951) · Martin / Synge (1952) · Staudinger (1953) · Pauling (1954) · du Vigneaud (1955) · Hinshelwood / Semyonov (1956) · Todd (1957) · Sanger (1958) · Heyrovský (1959) · Libby (1960) · Calvin (1961) · Perutz / Kendrew (1962) · Ziegler / Natta (1963) · Hodgkin (1964) · Woodward (1965) · Mulliken (1966) · Eigen / Norrish / Porter (1967) · Onsager (1968) · Barton / Hassel (1969) · Leloir (1970) · Herzberg (1971) · Anfinsen / Moore / Stein (1972) · E. O. Fischer / Wilkinson (1973) · Flory (1974) · Cornforth / Prelog (1975)

1976–2000	Lipscomb (1976) · Prigogine (1977) · Mitchell (1978) · Brown / Wittig (1979) · Berg / Gilbert / Sanger (1980) · Fukui / Hoffmann (1981) · Klug (1982) · Taube (1983) · Merrifield (1984) · Hauptman / Karle (1985) · Herschbach / Lee / Polanyi (1986) · Cram / Lehn / Pedersen (1987) · Deisenhofer / Huber / Michel (1988) · Altman / Cech (1989) · Corey (1990) · Ernst (1991) · Marcus (1992) · Mullis / Smith (1993) · Olah (1994) · Crutzen / Molina / Rowland (1995) · Curl / Kroto / Smalley (1996) · Boyer / Walker / Skou (1997) · Kohn / Pople (1998) · Zewail (1999) · Heeger / MacDiarmid / Shirakawa (2000)

2001–present	Knowles / Noyori / Sharpless (2001) · Fenn / Tanaka / Wüthrich (2002) · Agre / MacKinnon (2003) · Ciechanover / Hershko / Rose (2004) · Grubbs / Schrock / Chauvin (2005) · Kornberg (2006) · Ertl (2007) · Shimomura / Chalfie / Tsien (2008) · Ramakrishnan / Steitz / Yonath (2009) · Heck / Negishi / Suzuki (2010) · Dan Shechtman (2011) · Robert Lefkowitz / Brian Kobilka (2012) · Martin Karplus / Michael Levitt / Arieh Warshel (2013) · Eric Betzig / Stefan Hell / William E. Moerner (2014)

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A circular helical assembly reported by Jean-Marie Lehn et al. in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 1996, 35, 1838–1840.

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