Nationality Japan Role Chemist Known for Suzuki reaction Fields Chemistry | Influences Herbert Charles Brown Influenced by Herbert C. Brown Name Akira Suzuki Awards Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
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Born September 12, 1930 (age 94)
Mukawa, Hokkaido, Japan ( 1930-09-12 ) Institutions Hokkaido University
Purdue University
University of Wales
Okayama University of Science
Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts
Academia Sinica
National Taiwan University Alma mater Hokkaido University
Purdue University Notable awards Nobel Prize for Chemistry (2010)
Person of Cultural Merit (2010)
Order of Culture (2010) Books Organoboranes in Organic Syntheses Education Purdue University, Hokkaido University Similar People Ei‑ichi Negishi, Richard F Heck, Herbert C Brown | ||
Nobel lectures 2010 chemistry akira suzuki
Akira Suzuki (鈴木 章, Suzuki Akira, born September 12, 1930) is a Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (2010), who first published the Suzuki reaction, the organic reaction of an aryl- or vinyl-boronic acid with an aryl- or vinyl-halide catalyzed by a palladium(0) complex, in 1979.
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- Nobel lectures 2010 chemistry akira suzuki
- Akira suzuki about his postdoc supervisor prof herbert c brown s advice
- Life
- Recognition
- References
Akira suzuki about his postdoc supervisor prof herbert c brown s advice
Life
Suzuki was born on September 12, 1930, in Mukawa, Hokkaidō. He studied at Hokkaido University and after receiving his PhD he worked there as assistant professor. From 1963 until 1965, Suzuki worked as a postdoctoral student with Herbert Charles Brown at Purdue University and after returning to the University of Hokkaidō he became a full professor there. With his retirement from the University of Hokkaidō in 1994 he took several positions in other Universities: 1994–1995 Okayama University of Science and 1995–2002 Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2010 together with Richard F. Heck and Ei-ichi Negishi.
Recognition
