Akira Suzuki
Japanese chemist
Akira Suzuki is a Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate, who first published the Suzuki reaction, the organic reaction of an aryl- or vinyl-boronic acid with an aryl- or vinyl-halide catalyzed by a palladium complex, in 1979. Wikipedia
Born: 1930 (age 93 years), Mukawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Education: Purdue University and Hokkaido University
Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry