Jean-Pierre Sauvage is a French coordination chemist working at Strasbourg University. He graduated from the National School of Chemistry of Strasbourg, in 1967. He has specialized in supramolecular chemistry for which he has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016, announced October 5, 2016. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa, “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”. Jean-Pierre Sauvage: born 1944, Paris, France. Sir J. Fraser Stoddart: born 1942, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Bernard L. Feringa: born 1951, Barger-Compascuum, the Netherlands. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).