Akira Suzuki
Nobel Prize 2010: Hokkaido University, Japan
Nobel Prize 2010: Hokkaido University, Japan
Biography
Suzuki received his doctorate in 1959 at Hokkaido University, Sapporo (Japan) and was, after a research stay with H. C. Brown (Purdue) in the late 1960s, a professor there from 1965 until 1994. Towards the end of the 1970s he was able to show that organoboron compounds can be coupled with vinyl and aryl halides under basic conditions and palladium catalysis. Together with Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, this discovery earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010.
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