3/28/2023 0 Comments Jean marie cliphouse![]() My work was concerned with conformational and physico-chemical properties of triterpenes. ![]() This was the first decisive stage of my training. The seed was sown, so that when, the next year, I followed the stimulating lectures of a newly appointed young professor, Guy Ourisson, it became clear to me that I wanted to do research in organic chemistry.Īfter having obtained the degree of Licencié-ès-Sciences (Bachelor), I entered Ourisson’s laboratory in October of 1960, as a junior member of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in order to work towards a Ph.D. I bought myself compounds and glassware and began performing laboratory practice experiments at my parents home. I was particularly receptive to the experimental power of organic chemistry, which was able to convert at will, it seemed, complicated substances into one another following well defined rules and routes. During this year 1957/58, I was impressed by the coherent and rigorous structure of organic chemistry. I envisaged to study philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, but being still undecided, I began with first year courses in physical, chemical and natural sciences (SPCN). However, I also became interested in sciences, especially chemistry, so that I obtained the baccalauréat in Philosophy in July 1957 and in Experimental Sciences in September of the same year. My high school studies from 1950 to 1957 were in classics, with Latin, Greek, German, and English languages, French literature and, during the last year, philosophy, on which I was especially keen. During these years I began to play the piano and the organ, and with time music has become my major interest outside science. I grew up in Rosheim during the years of the second world war, went to primary school after the war and, at age eleven, I entered high school, the Collège Freppel, located in Obernai, a small city about five kilometers from Rosheim. I was the eldest of four sons and helped out in the shop with my first brother. My mother Marie kept the house and the shop. My father, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was very interested in music, played the piano and the organ and became later, having given up the bakery, the organist of the city. I was born on Septemin Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. ![]() Share via Email: Jean-Marie Lehn – Biographical Share this content via Email.Share on LinkedIn: Jean-Marie Lehn – Biographical Share this content on LinkedIn.Tweet: Jean-Marie Lehn – Biographical Share this content on Twitter.Share on Facebook: Jean-Marie Lehn – Biographical Share this content on Facebook. ![]()
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