Ryoji NOYORI

Ryoji Noyori is a 2001 Nobel laureate in chemistry for his development of chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions.

Education 1969–1970 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University 1967 Dr. Eng., Kyoto University 1963 Master, Kyoto University 1961 Bachelor, Kyoto University

Appointments 2015– Director, Science Museum, Science Foundation 2015– Director-General, Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) 2006–2008 Chair, Education Rebuilding Council 2005–2015 Chair, Science and Technology Council, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 2003–2015 President, RIKEN (2015– RIKEN Fellow) 2003– University Professor, Nagoya University 2002–2003 President, The Chemical Society of Japan 1997–1999 Dean, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University 1972–2003 Professor, Nagoya University 1968–1972 Associate Professor, Nagoya University 1963–1968 Instructor, Kyoto University

Academy Memberships Member of and Pontifical . Foreign member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences; of Sciences, USA; Russian Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Sciences, Korea; Royal Society, UK; Polish Academy of Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences. Honorary academician of , .

Awards 2010 Lomonosov Large Gold Medal (Russian Academy of Sciences) 2001 (Sweden) 2001 Roger Adams Award (American Chemical Society) 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry () 2000 Order of Culture (Japanese Government) 1999 King Faisal International Prize for Science (Saudi Arabia) 1998 Person of Cultural Merit (Japanese Government) 1997 Arthur C. Cope Award (American Chemical Society) 1995 Japan Academy Prize 1993 Tetrahedron Prize (UK) 1993 Asahi Prize (Japan)

Institution Center for Research and Development Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency. K’s Gobancho, 7, Gobancho, Chiyoda, 102-0076, Japan.