Ryoji Noyori Election Year 2010 K's Gobancho, 7, Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
102-0076, Japan Tel: 81-3-5214-7481 / Fax: 81-3-5214-7385
Current Positions
Director-General, Center for Research and Development Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency
University Professor of Nagoya University
Education
1961 Bachelor, Kyoto University
1963 Master, Kyoto University
1967 Ph.D., Kyoto University
1969-1970 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Professional Experience
1963-1968 Instructor, Kyoto University
1968-1972 Associate Professor, Nagoya University
1972-2003 Professor, Nagoya University
1997-1999 Dean, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University
2002-2003 President, The Chemical Society of Japan
2003— University Professor, Nagoya University
2003-2015 President, RIKEN (2015- RIKEN Fellow)
2003-2009 Chair, National University Corporation Evaluation Committee
2005-2015 Chair, Council for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2006-2008 Chair, Education Rebuilding Council
2005-2008 Member, Science Council of Japan
(2008— Correspondence Member)
2015— Director-General, Center for Research and Development Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency
2015— Director, Science Museum, Japan Science Foundation
Specialties
Organic synthesis chemistry
Awards and Honors
1985 Chemical Society of Japan Award
1993 1992 Asahi Prize (Japan)
1993 Tetrahedron Prize (UK)
1995 Japan Academy Prize
1997 Arthur C. Cope Award (American Chemical Society)
1998 Person of Cultural Merit (Japanese Government)
1999 King Faisal International Prize for Science (Saudi Arabia)
2000 Order of Culture (Japanese Government)
2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry (Israel)
2001 Roger Adams Award (American Chemical Society)
2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Sweden, shared with William S. Knowles and K. Barry Sharpless)
2010 Lomonosov Large Gold Medal (Russian Academy of Sciences)
2021 Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award (American Chemical Society)
Honorary Degrees: Technical University of Munich; University of Rennes; University of Bologna; University of Alicante; Uppsala University; University of Ottawa; University of Chicago; RWTH Aachen University; Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hanyang University; Universiti Sains Malaysia; Kazan Federal University; University of Liverpool; Saint-Petersburg State University; Pohang University of Science and Technology; Institute of Chemical Technology, India.
Member of: Japan Academy; Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Foreign or Honorary Member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences; National Academy of Sciences, USA; Russian Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Sciences, Korea; Royal Society, UK; Polish Academy of Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan