Ei ichi negishi biography of donald

Ei-ichi Negishi, H. C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University, grew up in Japan and received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Tokyo in After he obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in , he joined Professor H. C. Brown's Laboratories at Purdue as a Postdoctoral Associate in and was appointed Assistant to Professor Brown in Negishi went to Syracuse University as Assistant Professor in and began his life-long investigations of transition metal-catalyzed organometallic reactions for organic synthesis. He was promoted to Associate Professor at Syracuse University in and invited back to Purdue University as Full Professor in In he was appointed the inaugural H. C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry.

Professor Negishi has received various awards, with the most representative being the Chemical Society of Japan Award, the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, – Alexander von Humboldt Senior Researcher Award, Germany, Sir Edward Frankland Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, the Yamada-Koga Prize, Japan, the ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japanese Order of Culture, and the Nobel Prize

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