In 2009 Jean-Pierre Sauvage will celebrate his 65th birthday, and New Journal of Chemistry (NJC) is dedicating an issue to him. Jean-Pierre Sauvage has been closely connected to NJC, serving on the Editorial Board from 1998 to 2002 and then on the international Advisory Board for another 4 years. He has been a long time supporter of NJC, having publishing nearly 50 papers in the journal since 1977. 

Jean-Pierre Sauvage is a pioneer in the field of mechanically interlocked molecular architectures. His scientific interests range from models for the photosynthetic reaction centre using transition-metal complexes and porphyrins to topology, molecular machines and nanomotors. Jean-Pierre Sauvage was born in Paris in 1944. He obtained his PhD from the University of Strasbourg under the supervision of J.-M. Lehn. After postdoctoral research in Oxford (UK) with M. L. H. Green, he went back to Strasbourg where he is now a CNRS Director of Research. 

Sarah Ruthven, RSC editor of New Journal of Chemistry comments, "I am delighted to showcase the research of Jean-Pierre Sauvage and other colleagues that work within this related field of chemistry. This issue of NJC is inspirational, with amazing contributions from our very talented authors." 

To view the dedicated NJC issue to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, please click on the link in the Also of Interest section. To celebrate the work of Jean-Pierre Sauvage, RSC Publishing is giving free access until the end of June 2009 to 5 recently published papers by Jean-Pierre Sauvage in NJC, ChemComm, Chem Soc Rev and Dalton Transactions. We invite you to read these now.