Akira Suzuki Scientist

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.

Personal facts

Akira Suzuki
Birth dateSeptember 12, 1930
Birth place
Japan , Mukawa Hokkaido
Nationality
Japan
Education
Purdue University
Hokkaido University
Known for
Suzuki reaction

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Scientist

awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Order of Culture
Person of Cultural Merit
Field of study
Chemistry
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