The French chemist Jean-Marie Lehn, the recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, accepted the invitation of Libor Grubhoffer, Director of the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, to visit České Budějovice from 26 to 28 June 2022.
Jean-Marie Lehn (*1939) is considered to be the father of so-called supramolecular chemistry. He won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of synthetic macrocyclic molecules with selective properties for binding ions and molecules.
This eminent scientist arrived in České Budějovice on Sunday 26 June. On the morning of Monday 27 June, Jean-Marie Lehn presented his conceptual thoughts on chemistry and science in general in a lecture entitled 'From Matter to Life: Chemistry? Chemistry!' in room C2 at the USB Faculty of Science. The lecture was also attended by high school students.
A recording of this lecture is available HERE!
After the afternoon discussion with PhD students, the Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Lehn also met with representatives of the management of the University of South Bohemia, the Faculty of Science, the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences and representatives of the management of the Statutory City of České Budějovice. Originally, his visit was supposed to take place two years ago, but it had to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
