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ProfileJean Fréchet, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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LOCATIONCongress Centrum Mainz, Germany DATES7–9 June 2009
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ProfileJean Fréchet, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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LOCATIONCongress Centrum Mainz, Germany DATES7–9 June 2009
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Jean Fréchet was born in France and received his first university degree at the Institut de Chimie et Physique Industrielles (now CPE) in Lyon, before moving to the US to earn Ph.D. degrees in organic and polymer chemistry from the State University of New York and from Syracuse University. He joined the Chemistry Faculty at the University of Ottawa in Canada in 1973 then moved to Cornell University in 1987 as the IBM Professor of Polymer Chemistry then the Peter J. Debye Chair of Chemistry. In 1997, Jean Fréchet joined the Chemistry Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley where he holds the Henry Rapoport Chair of Organic Chemistry and is also Professor of Chemical Engineering and a Scientific Director of the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has authored approximately 750 scientific papers and 70 United States patents as well as numerous foreign patents. His research at the interface of organic and polymer chemistry is in the broad area of nanoscience and nanotechnology, and is directed towards functional organic molecules and polymers, their design, synthesis, and applications. Current topics cover a broad area of science and engineering from energy harvesting and conversion, to targeted drug delivery and immunotherapy.
