5月7日下午，山西大学120周年校庆——自然科学系列讲座第12讲在线上举行。诺贝尔奖获得者Jean-Marie Lehn教授作了题为“Steps Towards Complex Matter: Chemistry !”的学术报告。山西大学党委副书记李思殿、化学化工学院院长高利珍、化学化工学院党委书记郭炜等教师出席讲座并对Lehn教授表示欢迎和感谢。

Lehn教授首先回顾了化学的发展历史，随后用一个小时的精彩演讲把大家带入超分子化学的学科领域，并解释了什么叫做分子识别，什么叫做自组织过程，展现了化学的无穷魅力，并用一句化学的精髓不只是发现，而是创造。“化学之书不是用来阅读的，而是用来创造的”寄语化院学子。最后Lehn教授用普罗米修斯的故事鼓励化院学子勇于探索，为祖国化学事业的发展做出更大贡献。

提问环节，聆听讲座的师生踊跃提问，与Lehn教授围绕讲座内容进行了充分交流，Lehn教授耐心解答了大家的疑问，给出了很多专业性的解答和建议。

我院高度重视本次讲座，组织一院五所30余名师生在化学化工学院会议室集中观看，线上观看人数达482人次，师生反响热烈，本次讲座圆满结束。

个人简介

Professor Jean-Marie Lehn was born in Rosheim of France in 1939. In 1963, Mr. Lehn got his Ph. D from France University of Strasbourg, which was followed by postdoctoral research at Harvard University. On returning to Strasbourg, he began to his study in the interdisciplinary frontier of organic chemistry and physical chemistry. Later on he gradually shifted his interest to biological processes. In 1968, Prof. Lehn synthesized a cage-like molecule which could form complexes with a variety of metal ions. He studied, as a beginning, the chemical basis of “ M  olecular   R  ecognition” , which is also the way of receptor molecules to recognize and bind selectively substrates. In 1970 he was promoted to professor of the Strasbourg Louis-Pasteur University. In 1979, he was again granted professorship by the College de France in Paris. Especially, in 1987, Prof. Lehn won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with D.J. Cram and C.J. Pedersen together.

Prof. Lehn's research work opened up a novel field of chemistry, which he termed as “ S  up  ra  molecular   C  hemistry” . Accordingly, he is nowadays known as  the   Father   of   S  upramolecular   C  hemistry  by virtue of his outstanding work in this field. Up to now, Prof. Lehn has published more than 900 papers. He owns membership of many academic organizations in worldwide, to name a few, academician of French academy of sciences, foreign academician of united states national academy of sciences, foreign academician of Chinese academy of science and so on. Apart from the Nobel Prize, he also won numerous international awards and honors in chemistry.