NOYORI Ryoji
NOYORI Ryoji (1938-)
Biography
1961.3 | B.S. Kyoto University |
1963.3 | M. S. Graduate school of Engineering, Kyoto University |
1963.4-1968.1 | Assistant Professor, Kyoto University |
1968.2-1972.8 | Associate Professor, Nagoya University |
1969.1-1970.3 | Visiting researcher at Harvard University |
1972.8-1996.3 | Professor, Nagoya University |
1997.1-1999.12 | Dean at Faculty of Science, Nagoya University |
2000.4-2003.9 | Director, Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University |
2001.4-2003.6 | Special Adviser, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
2002.4-2003.9 | Director, Institute for Advanced Research ,Nagoya University |
2002.12 | Member of the Japan Academy |
2003.10- | Administrative Director, RIKEN |
2003.10-2004.10 | Professor, Nagoya University |
2004.10- | Distinguished Professor, Nagoya University |
Award and Prize
1971 | The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists |
1978 | Matsunaga Prize |
1982 | Chunichi Culture Prize |
1985 | The Chemical Society of Japan Award |
1989 | The Naito Foundation Research Prize (The Naito Science Foundation) The Centenary Medal (The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) The Fluka Prize (Fluka Chemie AG, Switzerland) |
1990 | The Merck-Schuchardt Chair (BOSS, Belgium) |
1991 | The J. G. Kirkwood Award (The American Chemical Society・Yale University) |
1993 | The Asahi Prize (The Asahi Culture Foundation) The Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry (Pergamon Press, UK) |
1994 | The Keimei Life Science Prize (The Keimei Foundation) |
1995 | The Japan Academy Prize |
1996 | The Bonn Chemistry Award (University of Bonn・Pinguin Foundation, Germany) |
1997 | The Arthur C. Cope Award (The American Chemical Society) |
1999 | The King Faisal International Prize for Science (The King Faisal Foundation, Saudi Arabia) |
2001 | The Special Award, The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry The Wolf Prize in Chemistry (The Wolf Foundation, Israel) The Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry (The American Chemical Society) The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (The Nobel Foundation, Sweden) |
2002 | The Luigi Sacconi Medal |
2003 | Gold Medal, Scientific Partnership Foundation, Russia |
2006 | Molecular Chirality Award, Molecular Chirality Research Organization The Amedeo Avogadro Gold Medal, The Italian Chemical Society |
2009 | The Centenary Medal, The Royal Society of Canada |
2010 | The Lomonosov Gold Medal, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia The Sir Derek Barton Gold Medal, TheRoyal Society of Chemistry, UK |
1998 | Person of Cultural Merit |
2000 | The Order of Culture |
Research and Achievements
- Development of Chirally Catalyzed hydrogenation reactions
- Development of BINAP
- implementation of synthesis of menthol by utilizing asymmetric processes