The University of Pardubice welcomed the Nobel Prize winner

The University of Pardubice welcomed the Nobel Prize winner. The French chemist Jean-Marie Lehn read his lecture “Steps towards complex matter: Chemistry!” He was invited to UPCE by the Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Technology, Professor Petr Němec.

Jean-Marie Lehn is an innovator in the field of organic chemistry. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 together with D. J. Cram and Ch. J. Pedersen for the discovery of synthetic macrocyclic substances with selective properties for binding ions and molecules. 

"We are honoured to welcome to the University of Pardubice a world-class scientist, which Professor Lehn undoubtedly is. I believe that his visit will be an inspiration especially for our young scientists, academics and students," said Professor Němec, Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Technology, before the lecture.

The Nobel Prize winner was heard by academics of the Faculty of Chemical Technology, and also by students of several high schools from Pardubice and participants of the Pharmacokinetic Seminar from the Czech Republic and abroad. Jakub Rychtecký, Deputy Mayor of Pardubice, who is responsible for education, was also a guest at the lecture.