Nagoya Cold Medal and Carothers Award to J. M.J. Frechet

摘要

Jean M. J.- Frechet (University of California, Berkeley, USA) has received the Nagoya Gold Medal and the Carothers Award of the Delaware section of the ACS for his work on organic and polymer chemistry, and in particular on dendrimers for nanoscience. Frechet studied chemistry at the Institut de Chimie et Physique Industrielle (now CPE) in Lyon and completed his Ph.D. in organic and polymer chemistry at the State University of New York. From 1973 to 1987 he was professor at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and thereafter at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY). He has taught and conducted researched in Berkeley at the University of California and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1997.