Koji Nakanishi
| Koji Nakanishi 中西 香爾 |
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|---|---|
| Born |
11 May 1925 Tokyo, Japan |
| Citizenship | Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions |
Tokyo University of Education Tohoku University Columbia University |
| Alma mater | Nagoya University |
| Doctoral advisor | Yoshimasa Hirata |
| Notable students | Satoshi Ōmura |
| Notable awards |
Ernest Guenther Award (1978) Japan Academy Prize (1990) Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy (1990) Arthur C. Cope Award (1990) Scheele Award (1992) Welch Award (1996) Person of Cultural Merit (1999) King Faisal International Prize (2003) Order of Culture (2007) |
Koji Nakanishi (中西 香爾 Nakanishi Kōji?, born May 11, 1925) a bioorganic and natural products chemist, is Centennial Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and former Chairman of the Chemistry Department, Columbia University.
He was born in Hong Kong on May 11, 1925. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Nagoya University in 1947 from Prof. Fujio Egami. Following two years of post-graduate work with Prof. Louis Fieser at Harvard University, he returned to Nagoya University where he completed his Ph.D. in 1954 with Prof. Yoshimasa Hirata.
He took a position as Assistant Professor at Nagoya, and then Professor of Chemistry at Tokyo University of Education (now the University of Tsukuba). In 1963 he moved to Tohoku University in Sendai and remained there until 1969 when he joined the faculty of Columbia University. In 1980 he became Centennial Professor of Chemistry. He was Chairman of the Chemistry Department, 1987-90.
He was a founding member and one of the six Directors of Research at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Kenya, the first Director of the nonprofit Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research (Sunbor), Osaka, and he assisted the Brazilian government to set up a center of excellence in the Amazons, the Institute of Medicinal and Ecological Chemistry with its headquarters in São Paulo. In April 2001 he was asked to start a chemistry unit within Biosphere 2, Arizona, operated by Columbia University.
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