Ei-ichi Negishi, Date of Birth

Ei-ichi Negishi

Japanese chemist

Date of Birth: 14-Jul-1935

Profession: professor, chemist

Nationality: Japan, United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Ei-ichi Negishi (?? ??, Negishi Eiichi) is a Manchurian-born Japanese chemist who has spent most of his career at Purdue University in the United States.
He is the Herbert C.
Brown Distinguished Professor and Director of the Negishi-Brown Institute at Purdue.
He is best known for his discovery of the Negishi coupling.
He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for palladium catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" jointly with Richard F.
Heck and Akira Suzuki.