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Akira Suzuki
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Akira Suzuki is a Japanese chemist born in 1930 who is known for his work in organic chemistry. He is notable for developing the Suzuki reaction, a widely used chemical process that has become fundamental to modern drug synthesis and materials science.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2010
“for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis”
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Suzuki
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Occupation
- professor
- Employer
- National Taiwan University
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Science
- Student of
- Herbert C. Brown
- Field of work
- chemistry
- Image
- Akira Suzuki 20111212.jpg
- Residence
- Ebetsu
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- Akira Suzuki
- date of birth
- 1930-09-12
- member of
- Japan Academy
- name in kana
- すずき あきら
- name in native language
- 鈴木章
- influenced by
- Herbert C. Brown
- interested in
- chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Akira Suzuki (鈴木 章, Suzuki Akira; born September 12, 1930) is a Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (2010), who first published the Suzuki reaction, the organic reaction of an aryl- or vinyl-boronic acid with an aryl- or vinyl-halide catalyzed by a palladium(0) complex, in 1979.
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