Jean-Marie Lehn:
Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
September 30, 1939 in Rosheim, France
Claim to Fame:
Lehn is a French chemist who shares with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles Pedersen the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research and development of host-guest chemistry. Host-guest chemistry is where two or more molecules/ions bond in unique ways due to their structure in other than covalent bonds. Lehn created molecules that acted as a cage molecule where a central molecule or atom would get trapped within a cavity created by the cage molecule.
