page_title: Ben Feringa
hierarchical_section_title: Ben Feringa
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Op 6 april 2017 werd Nobelprijswinnaar Ben Feringa door de gemeente Emmen geëerd door de Dam in het hart van zijn geboortedorp Barger-Compascuum naar hem te vernoemen.
context_page_description: Bernard Lucas Feringa is a Dutch synthetic organic chemist, specializing in molecular nanotechnology and homogeneous catalysis. He is the Jacobus van 't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences, at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Netherlands, and an Academy Professor and Chair of Board of the Science Division of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
  He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Sauvage, "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines".
context_section_description: Bernard Lucas Feringa ([ˈbɛrnɑrt ˈlykɑs ˈbɛn ˈfeːrɪŋɣaː], born 18 May 1951) is a Dutch synthetic organic chemist, specializing in molecular nanotechnology and homogeneous catalysis. He is the Jacobus van 't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences, at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Netherlands, and an Academy Professor and Chair of Board of the Science Division of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
  He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and  Jean-Pierre Sauvage, "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines".
caption: Ben Feringa in 2017
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