Noyori, Ryoji

Name:
Noyori, Ryoji
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(1938– ). Born in Kobe (now Ashiya), Japan, Noyori won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2001 for his pioneering work concerning chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions. Awarded a doctorate from Kyoto University in 1967. Noyori is a professor at Nagoya and Harvard Universities. Among many other awards, he received the the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (Wolf Foundation, Israel) 2001, and the Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry (ACS), 2001.