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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001
"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"
"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"
William S. Knowles
Ryoji Noyori
K. Barry Sharpless
1/4 of the prize
1/4 of the prize
1/2 of the prize
USA
Japan
USA
St. Louis, MO, USA
Nagoya University
Nagoya, Japan
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, CA, USA
b. 1917
b. 1938
b. 1941
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