Akira Suzuki Quotes


Including my nine years as a student, the majority of my life has been at Hokkaido University. After my retirement from the university in 1994, I served at two private universities in Okayama Prefecture - Okayama University of Science and Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts - before retiring from university work in 2002.


Citations

Suzuki, Akira. "Akira Suzuki - Biographical." Les Prix Nobel 2010, edited by Karl Grandin, Nobel Foundation, 2011.

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Akira Suzuki
Akira Suzuki
  • Born: September 12, 1930
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Profession: Scientist

Akira Suzuki 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.