Jean-Paul Behr (Universite de Strasbourg) has been voted a member of the Academie des Sciences (Paris). He studied at the University of Strasbourg, where he received his doctorate in supramolecular chemistry in 1973 under the supervision of the Nobel laureate J.-M. Lehn. In 1973/74, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sheffield in the group of D. Chapman on membrane physics. Upon returning to France, he worked at the CNRS; in 1978, the University of Strasbourg made him professor of chemistry. He was named director of research by the CNRS in 1985, and in 1989 he was made director of the Institute for Genetic Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a member of the board of the CNRS. In 2000 he received the Paul Ehrlich Prize and in 2001 the Pasteur Medal.
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