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Akira Suzuki

1930 - Today

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Akira Suzuki (鈴木 章, Suzuki Akira; born September 12, 1930) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Akira Suzuki is the 173rd most popular chemist (down from 111th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Japan (down from 98th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Chemist.

Akira Suzuki is most famous for his work in the field of molecular biology, specifically for his discovery of the genetic sequence of DNA.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Akira Suzuki ranks 173 out of 602. Before him are John E. Walker, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Derek Barton, Richard F. Heck, and Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier. After him are William Standish Knowles, Alan J. Heeger, Max Perutz, Robert Curl, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, and Felix Hoffmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Akira Suzuki ranks 53. Before him are Joanne Woodward, Harold Pinter, Immanuel Wallerstein, Gary Becker, Gylmar dos Santos Neves, and Bernie Ecclestone. After him are Biljana Plavšić, Tippi Hedren, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lorin Maazel, Félix Guattari, and Theodore Edgar McCarrick.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Suzuki ranks 100 out of 6,245. Before him are Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740), Date Masamune (1567), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Tokugawa Hidetada (1579), Kūkai (774), and Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885). After him are Empress Meishō (1624), Himiko (175), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Fumio Kishida (1957), Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), and Emperor Sakuramachi (1720).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Akira Suzuki ranks 1. After him are Kenichi Fukui (1918), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Akira Yoshino (1948), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Masatoshi Shima (1943), and Takamine Jōkichi (1854).

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