Jean Fréchet
Jean MJ Fréchet ( born August 19, 1944 in Chalon -sur -Saône, France) is an American chemist. He is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.
Fréchet studied at the Institut de Chimie et Physique Industrielle (now the École supérieure de chimie physique électronique de Lyon) in Lyon ( degree in chemical engineering in 1967 ) and then went to the USA where he and at the State University of New York ( College of Environmental Science Forestry ) and Syracuse University in 1969 and did his master's degree was awarded his doctorate in 1971 in chemistry at Syracuse University. From 1973, he was Assistant Professor, in 1978 Associate Professor and from 1982 professor of chemistry at the University of Ottawa. In 1987, he was IBM Professor of Polymer Chemistry at Cornell University, where he received the 1995 Peter J. Debye Chair. In 1997 he became a professor at Berkeley, starting in 2003 when Henry Rapoport Professor of Organic Chemistry and from 2005 also as a professor of chemical engineering. He is also Head of material synthesis at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and director of the Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry at the Molecular Foundry.
1979 and 1983 he was a visiting scientist at the IBM Research Center in San Jose and 1980-1989 Consultant of Xerox Corporation. 2010/11 he was Vice President for Research at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal at Mecca.
He is concerned with organic synthesis and polymer chemistry with applications in nanoscience and nanotechnology and specially design and synthesis of functional macromolecules. In particular, he developed synthetic methods for dendrimers. He developed around 1980 photoresist materials for semiconductor manufacturing ( lithography ) in Chemically amplified resist process, along with Grant Willson ( University of Texas at Austin ) and Hiroshi Ito (IBM). This allowed only the smart production with structures below 250 nanometers.
In 2011 he was one of the most cited chemists (ranked 16 in the Hirsch index).
He has published over 800 articles (2012 ) and holds over 70 U.S. patents.
Frechet is more honorary doctorates (including Lyon, Ottawa ). He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS, 2010), the National Academy of Sciences ( 2000), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000 ), the National Academy of Engineering, the Academia Europaea and the American Academy of Arts and sciences. In 2007 he received the Arthur C. Cope Award of the ACS, 1986 Arthur K. Doolittle Award the 1996 ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science, and the 2000 ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry, 2007 Dickson Prize in Science, 2009 Herman Mark Award and 2010 Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea. In 2013 he was awarded the Japan Prize in 2010 and the Grand Prix de la Maison de la Chimie in Paris.
He is a U.S. citizen.