Ben Feringa

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Dutch Nobel laureate in chemistry

Netherlands ScientistsBorn 1951 · age 75

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Bernard Lucas "Ben" Feringa is a Dutch synthetic organic chemist who specializes in molecular nanotechnology and homogeneous catalysis.

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Feringa at Nobel press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, December 2016

Awards 20

2025Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology

2023honorary doctorate of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

2020Foreign Member of the Royal Society

2019honorary doctorate of the University of Santiago de Compostela

2017Centenary Prize

2016Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2016Tetrahedron Prize

2016August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal

2016Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion

2015Ernest Solvay Prize

2013Marie Curie Medal

2012Humboldt Prize

2012Cino Del Duca Science Prize

2011Organic Stereochemistry Award

2009Chirality Medal

2008Paracelsus Prize

2007James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry

2005Prelog Medal and Lecture

2004Spinoza Prize

2003Körber European Science Prize

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Ada YonathAlso won Marie Curie Medal

Gerard 't HooftAlso won Spinoza Prize

Katalin KarikóAlso won Ernest Solvay Prize

Karl Barry SharplessAlso won Chirality Medal

Douglas OsheroffAlso won honorary doctorate of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

Stefan HellAlso won Körber European Science Prize

About this person

Bernard Lucas "Ben" Feringa is a Dutch synthetic organic chemist who specializes in molecular nanotechnology and homogeneous catalysis. He is the Jacobus van 't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen; and an Academy professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Feringa's research on molecular machines was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Sauvage.

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Netherlands