Ryoji Noyori:
Ryoji Noyori is a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
September 3, 1938 in Kobe, Japan
Claim to Fame:
Noyori is a Japanese chemist who shares half the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with William Knowles for their work with chirally catalyzed hydrogenations. These reactions are used to prepare many pharmaceutical compounds where one chiral molecule is desired over its mirrored twin molecule. Noyori developed catalysts that produced more of the desired molecule than the undesired molecule.
