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Akira Suzuki

Akira Suzuki
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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.

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Timeline

  1. Akira Suzuki (this page)September 12, 1930 – present
  2. Jerome Isaac FriedmanMarch 28, 1930 – present
  3. Reinhard SeltenOctober 5, 1930 – August 23, 2016
  4. Robert AumannJune 8, 1930 – present
  5. Stanley MillerMarch 7, 1930 – May 20, 2007
  6. Zhores AlferovMarch 15, 1930 – March 1, 2019

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