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Curriculum Vitae
Noyori, Ryoji
President, RIKEN
President of RIKEN and University Professor of Nagoya University, Doctor of Engineering, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Japan Academy, Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, and the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK.
Born in 1938, Noyori graduated from the Kyoto University, Faculty of Engineering in 1961 with a degree in industrial chemistry. After serving as an Instructor at Kyoto University and Associate Professor at Nagoya University, Noyori went to Harvard University as a postdoctoral associate. He was appointed Professor at Nagoya University in 1972 and assumed his current positions in 2003. He has received many prestigious awards, including the Chemical Society of Japan Award (1985), the Japan Academy Prize (1995), the Order of Culture (2000), the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2001), and the Roger Adams Award (2001). In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with K. Barry Sharpless and William S. Knowles for their work on chirally catalyzed reactions.
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