Akira Suzuki

Akira Suzuki
Akira Suzuki
	Suzuki in 2010
Born	September 12, 1930; Mukawa, Hokkaidō, Japan
Alma mater	Hokkaidō University
Known for	Suzuki reaction
Awards	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.

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