Akira Suzuki (chemist)

Akira Suzuki

Born	(1930-09-12) September 12, 1930 (age 86) Mukawa, Hokkaidō, Japan
Nationality	Japan
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	Hokkaidō University Purdue University University of Wales Okayama University of Science Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts Academia Sinica National Taiwan University
Alma mater	Hokkaidō University Purdue University
Known for	Suzuki reaction
Influences	Herbert Charles Brown
Notable awards	Nobel Prize for Chemistry (2010) Person of Cultural Merit (2010) Order of Culture (2010)

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.

Suzuki was born on September 12, 1930, in Mukawa, Hokkaidō. He studied at Hokkaido University and after receiving his PhD he worked there as assistant professor. From 1963 until 1965, Suzuki worked as a postdoctoral student with Herbert Charles Brown at Purdue University and after returning to the University of Hokkaidō he became a full professor there. With his retirement from the University of Hokkaidō in 1994 he took several positions in other Universities: 1994–1995 Okayama University of Science and 1995–2002 Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2010 together with Richard F. Heck and Ei-ichi Negishi.