Akira Suzuki

Akira Suzuki
Akira Suzuki
	Suzuki in 2010
Born	September 12, 1930; Mukawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Alma mater	Hokkaidō University
Known for	Suzuki reaction
Awards	Japan Academy Prize (2003); Paul Karrer Gold Medal (2009); Nobel Prize for Chemistry (2010); Person of Cultural Merit (2010); Order of Culture (2010);
	Scientific career
Institutions	Hokkaidō University; Purdue University; University of Wales; Okayama University of Science; Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts;

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.

Akira Suzuki
Suzuki in 2010
Born	(1930-09-12) September 12, 1930 Mukawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Alma mater	Hokkaidō University
Known for	Suzuki reaction
Awards	Japan Academy Prize (2003) Paul Karrer Gold Medal (2009) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (2010) Person of Cultural Merit (2010) Order of Culture (2010)
Scientific career
Institutions	Hokkaidō University Purdue University University of Wales Okayama University of Science Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts