Two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010

6 October 2010

Two Japanese citizens, Eiichi Negishi, Purdue University, USA, and Akira Suzuki, Hokkaido University, Japan, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 together with Richard F. Heck, University of Delaware, USA for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.

Eiichi Negishi, a H.C. Brown Distinguished Professor at Purdue University, was born in 1935 in Changchun, China. He earned Ph.D. in 1963 at University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Akira Suzuki, a distinguished Professor Emeritus at Hokkaido University, was born in 1930 in Mukawa, Japan. He earned Ph.D. in 1959 at Hokkaido University, Japan.

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