thesis_year website work_institution birth_place awards nationality field birth_date residence article_title name postdoctoral_trainees
1972 www.kaust.edu.sa/office-vp-research-jean-frechet.html king abdullah university of science and technology burgundy , france japan 2007 -rrb- , arthur c. cope award -lrb- 2007 -rrb- prize -lrb- 2013 -rrb- , dickson prize -lrb- american chemistry 19 august 1944 u.s. jean fréchet
 jean m.j. fréchet craig hawker
jean fréchet

professor jean m.j. fréchet -lrb- born august 19 , 1944 , burgundy , france -rrb- , american chemist , is the henry rapoport chair of organic chemistry at the department of chemistry , university of california , berkeley .
in addition he is the head of materials synthesis , materials science division , of the lawrence berkeley national laboratory , director of the organic and macromolecular facility for the molecular foundry , lawrence berkeley national laboratory , and vice-president for research at king abdullah university of science and technology .
he has authored nearly 900 scientific papers and holds over 70 united states patents .
his research areas include organic synthesis and polymer chemistry applied to nanoscience and nanotechnology with emphasis on the design , fundamental understanding , synthesis , and applications of functional macromolecules .
he was a good friend of influential american chemist linus pauling and consistently mentions him in his organic chemistry lectures .
as of march 2011 , he is 16th on the hirsch index rating of all living chemists with an h-index of 105 .
he is an elected fellow of the american association for the advancement of science , the american chemical society , and the american academy of arts and sciences , and an elected member of the us national academy of sciences , the us national academy of engineering , and the academy of europe -lrb- academia europaea -rrb- .
