# Jean-Marie Lehn

> He showed how molecules recognize each other — how a drug knows which cell to kill and which to spare — and won the Nobel for cracking the chemistry of molecular assemblies that self-organize through attraction alone.

*French chemist*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1939-09-30
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Jean-Marie Lehn was born 30 September 1939 in France and became an early architect of supramolecular chemistry, the study of host–guest molecular systems held together not by bonds but by intermolecular forces. In 1987 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen for synthesizing cryptands, cage-like structures that trap ions with exquisite selectivity. The work opened a new grammar for chemists: instead of building molecules atom by atom, you could design components that find and bind each other on their own. By January 2006 his group had published 790 peer-reviewed articles, and he has kept working in the field he helped invent, refining the language of molecular recognition.

## Fame
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## Topics
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