Suzuki Akira

Suzuki Akira (born September 12, 1930, Mukawa-chō, Japan) is a Japanese chemist who was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in using palladium as a catalyst in producing organic molecules. He shared the prize with fellow Japanese chemist Negishi Ei-ichi and American chemist Richard F. Heck. Suzuki received both a bachelor’s degree (1954) and a doctorate (1959) from Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. He became an assistant professor in the department...