RYOJI NOYORI

2001 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions.

• Born: September 3, 1938
• Place of Birth: Kobe, Japan
• Residence: Japan
• Affiliation: Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
  • Address:
    Nagoya University
    Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
  • Telephone: +81-52-789-2956
  • FAX: +81-52-783-4177
  • E-mail: mailto:noyori@chem3.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp
• Education:
  • Kyoto University, Bachelor 1961
  • Kyoto University, Master 1963
  • Kyoto University, Ph. D. 1967

• Asymmetric Catalysis in Organic Synthesis (The George Fisher Baker Non-Resident Lectureship in Chemistry at Cornell) by Ryoji Noyori (1994)
• Comprehensive Asymmetric Catalysis (Comprehensive Overviews in Chemistry) by Eric N. Jacobsen (Editor), Andreas Pfaltz (Editor), Hisashi Yamamoto (Editor) (1999)
• Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds by Ernest L. Eliel, Samuel H. Wilen (Editor), Lewis N. Mander (Editor) (1994)
• Classics in Total Synthesis : Targets, Strategies, Methods by K. C. Nicolaou, E. J. Sorensen (1995)
• Asymmetric Synthesis : Chiral Catalysis by James D. Morrison (Editor) (1985)
• Books about chiral catalysis

• Prize co-recipient: William S. Knowles
• Prize co-recipient: K. Barry Sharpless
• Biography of Ryoji Noyori
• Ryoji Noyori's webpage at Nagoya University
• Official award announcement and background
• Information on research from the Nobel Foundation
• Advanced Information on research from the Nobel Foundation

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• Ryoji Noyori – Nobel Lecture (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
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• Ryoji Noyori – Autobiography (submitted by Gregory)
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