Autor/-in: Ryoji Noyori

1968 Appointed Associate Professor at Nagoya University. 1969 Conducted postdoctoral research under Elias J. Corey at Harvard University. 1972 Became Full Professor at Nagoya University. 2000-2003 Served as Director of the Research Center for Materials Science at Nagoya University. 2001 Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions. 2003-2015 Served as President of RIKEN, Japan's largest research institution.