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'From Matter to Life: Chemistry? Chemistry!' - lecture by Nobel Prize laureate Jean-Marie Lehn
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When:
2022-06-27 10:00

About event

French chemist Jean-Marie Lehn, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987, has 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. He will give a lecture and have a discussion with PhD students at the University of South Bohemia (USB) and the Biology Centre. His visit was originally scheduled to take place two years ago, but it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.   

Jean-Marie Lehn (*1939) is considered the father of so-called supramolecular chemistry having won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of synthetic macrocyclic molecules with selective properties for binding ions and molecules. This distinguished scientist will arrive in České Budějovice on Sunday 26 June.

On Monday 27 June at 10 a.m. he will present his conceptual thoughts on chemistry and science in general in a lecture entitled "From Matter to Life: Chemistry? Chemistry!" in room C2 of the USB Faculty of Science.

The lecture will be also broadcasted online via the Zoom platform.

Use the following link

https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/96969455737?pwd=ZlE5ajQxbC9NcytBcURjVlBLRlVhdz09

Lecture annotation:

From Matter to Life: Chemistry? Chemistry!

Jean-Marie LEHN,

ISIS, University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study

The evolution of the universe has generated more and more complex forms of matter through self-organization, from particles up to living and thinking matter. Animate as well as inanimate matter, living organisms as well as materials, are formed of molecules and of the organized entities resulting from the interaction of molecules with each other. Chemistry provides the bridge between the molecules of inanimate matter and the highly complex molecular architectures and systems which make up living and thinking organisms. Synthetic chemistry has developed a very powerful set of methods for constructing ever more complex molecules. Supramolecular chemistry seeks to control the formation of molecular assemblies by means of the interactions between the partners. The designed generation of organized architectures requires the handling of information at the molecular level in a sort of molecular programming, thus also linking chemistry with information science. The field of chemistry is the universe of all possible structures and transformations of molecular matter, of which those actually realized in nature represent just one world among all the worlds that await to be created! Conceptual considerations on chemistry and science in general will be presented.

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