Ryoji Noyori

1968 Appointed Associate Professor at Nagoya University. 1969 Conducted postdoctoral research under Elias J. Corey at Harvard University. 1972 Became Full Professor at Nagoya University. 2000–2003 Served as Director of the Research Center for Materials Science at Nagoya University. 2001 Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions. 2003–2015 Served as President of RIKEN, Japan's largest research institution.