Koichi Tanaka (born 1959, Toyama, Japan) is a Japanese analytical chemist and engineer, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses ...
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Samuel J. Danishefsky
Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936, Bayonne, NJ) is synthetic organic chemist who accomplished in natural products total synthesis and pioneer for chemical synthesis of carbohydrates for the ...
Roger Kornberg
Roger D. Kornberg (born 1947), biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his research on the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription. His father, Arthur Kornberg, who won ...
Barry M. Trost
Barry M. Trost (born in 1941) is an American organic chemist, Tamaki Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the chemistry department at Stanford University. He has made great contributions to the ...
Akira Suzuki
Akira, Suzuki (Born in 1930), is Japanese organic chemist. Suzuki was one of the recipients of Nobel prize in Chemistry 2010, with Richard Heck and Ei-ichi Negishi for their research during the 1960s ...
Robert B. Merrifield
Robert Bruce Merrifield, (1921-) is an American biochemist who won the 1984 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his method of producing peptides and proteins. He revolutionized the study of these complex ...
George Andrew Olah
George Andrew Olah (born in 1927, ) is a Hungarian and Americal chemist. He was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994 for his work involving generation and reactivity of carbocations via ...
Karl Barry Sharpless
Karl Barry Sharpless (born in 1941) is an American chemist who was awarded half the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into chirally catalysed oxidation reactions. He has discovered and ...
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1930, Rosheim, France), professor emeritus at the University of Strasbourg. In 1987 he was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his molecular recognition studies. ...
Masao Horiba
Dr. Masao Horiba is a pioneer in student-launched start-up companies in Japan. He founded Horiba Radio Laboratory in 1945. This became the foundation of HORIBA, Ltd., which manufactures a wide range ...