The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001
Awarded on: 2001-10-10
"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"
Affiliations:
- Nagoya University – Nagoya, Japan
Ryoji Noyori
Born: 1938-09-03 in Kobe, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese chemist (born 1938)
Biography
Ryōji Noyori is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, Noyori shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions.