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Ryōji Noyori
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Person

Ryōji Noyori

b. 1938

Japanese chemist (1938 - )

Born
3 Sept 1938 · Ashiya
Part ofJapan230 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 101 years
  1. 3 Sept 1938BornBorn in Ashiya
  2. 1988AwardCentenary Prize
  3. 1992AwardAsahi Prize
  4. 1993AwardTetrahedron Prize
  5. 1997AwardArthur C. Cope Award
  6. 1998AwardPerson of Cultural Merit
  7. 1999AwardKing Faisal Prize in Science
  8. 2000AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Rennes I
  9. 2000AwardOrder of Culture
  10. 2001AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  11. 2001AwardRoger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry
  12. 2001AwardWolf Prize in Chemistry
  13. 2003AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Ottawa

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1938 – today).

  1. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1938Munich Agreement
  3. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  4. 1939 – 1945World War II
  5. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  6. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  7. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  8. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  9. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  10. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  11. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  12. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  14. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  15. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  17. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  18. 1956Suez Crisis
  19. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  21. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  23. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  25. 1968Prague Spring
  26. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  27. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  28. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  29. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  31. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  32. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  33. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  34. 1985Schengen Agreement
  35. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  36. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  37. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  39. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  40. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War

Biography

Ryōji Noyori (野依 良治, Noyori Ryōji; born 3 September 1938) is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Noyori shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions (Sharpless epoxidation).

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