Jan 5, 2007
Knights of the chemical realm
Right royal honours were bestowed on two of my very oldest contacts in the field of chemistry this week. Royal Society of Chemistry president Professor Jim Feast was awarded the CBE in the New Year Honours List for “services to polymer chemistry.” And, supramolecular ex-pat Fraser Stoddart was given a Knighthood for to “services to chemistry and molecular nanotechnology.”
Congratulations to them both. With such accolades under their belts, it’s surely only a matter of time before either one of them gets that phone call from Stockholm too.
Sir Fraser is taking a 25-strong team to Northwestern University as Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry. Currently, he holds the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanosystems Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is director of the California NanoSystems Institute.