Prof. Dr. Ryoji NOYORİ
Ryoji Noyori is a 2001 Nobel laureate in chemistry for his development of chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions.
Education
- 1969–1970 : Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
- 1967 : Dr. Eng., Kyoto University
- 1963 : Master, Kyoto University
- 1961 : Bachelor, Kyoto University
Appointments
- 2015 : Director, Science Museum, Japan Science Foundation
- 2015 : Director-General, Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- 2006 : 2008 Chair, Education Rebuilding Council
- 2005 : 2015 Chair, Science and Technology Council, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- 2003 : 2015 President, RIKEN (2015– RIKEN Fellow)
- 2003 : University Professor, Nagoya University
- 2002 : 2003 President, The Chemical Society of Japan
- 1997 : 1999 Dean, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University
- 1972 : 2003 Professor, Nagoya University
- 1968 : 1972 Associate Professor, Nagoya University
- 1963 : 1968 Instructor, Kyoto University
Academy Memberships
Member of Japan Academy and Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Foreign member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences; National Academy of Sciences, USA; Russian Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Sciences, Korea; Royal Society, UK; Polish Academy of Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences. Honorary academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Awards
- 2010 : Lomonosov Large Gold Medal (Russian Academy of Sciences)
- 2001 : Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Sweden)
- 2001 : Roger Adams Award (American Chemical Society)
- 2001 : Wolf Prize in Chemistry (Israel)
- 2000 : Order of Culture (Japanese Government)
- 1999 : King Faisal International Prize for Science (Saudi Arabia)
- 1998 : Person of Cultural Merit (Japanese Government)
- 1997 : Arthur C. Cope Award (American Chemical Society)
- 1995 : Japan Academy Prize
- 1993 : Tetrahedron Prize (UK)
- 1993 : Asahi Prize (Japan)