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Born September 12, 1930 (age 94) • Japan
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study boron • catalysis • palladium

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Negishi Ei-ichi
Negishi Ei-ichi
Japanese chemist
Richard F. Heck, 2010.
Richard F. Heck
American chemist
Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman
Canadian-American scientist
Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss scientist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Richard Willstätter
German chemist
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
American chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
George A. Olah, 2009.
George A. Olah
Hungarian American chemist
Donald J. Cram
American chemist
Sir Robert Robinson.
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Adolf Windaus
German chemist
Tanaka Koichi
Japanese scientist
lithium-ion batteries
Yoshino Akira
Japanese chemist
Noyori Ryōji
Japanese chemist

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