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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
William S. Knowles Ryoji Noyori K. Barry Sharpless
quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize half 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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