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Ryoji Noyori
(Nagoya University, Japan)
2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the asymmetric catalysts for high-selectivity synthesis of optically active compounds.
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Walter Kaminsky
(University of Hamburg, Germany)
Discovery of the metallocene catalysts, a highly active olefin polymerization catalysts, for the first time in the world, thus paving the way for precise polymerization of olefin.
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Hiroshi Shirai
(Asahi Kasei Corporation, Japan)
Mr. Shirai is responsible for research on polymerization catalysts and process development of novel olefinic polymers.
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Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
(Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.)
Pioneer of highly controlled living radical polymerization (ATRP: Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization). With the arrival of ATRP, creation of polymers with various unique structures, such as gradient function polymers, has become possible.
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Tobin J. Marks
(Northwestern University, U.S.A.)
Numbering among the researchers contributing most to the development of catalysis science. Stand foremost in the development of olefin polymerization co-catalysts.
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Thomas M. Connelly, Jr.
(DuPont Company, U.S.A.)
Currently Senior Vice President and Chief Science and Technology Officer at DuPont. Dr. Connelly leads DuPont’s proud tradition of innovation.
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Maurice S. Brookhart
(University of North Carolina, U.S.A.)
Developed the postmetallocene catalysts (highly efficient next-generation olefin polymerization catalysts) for the first time. Using this catalyst, created new performance polymers previously unattainable with metallocenes.
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Tatsuya Miyatake
(Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., Japan)
With an overall responsibility for R&D on single-site catalysts including both metallocene and non-metallocene catalysts. Mr. Miyatake is involved in the development of high performance polyolefins.
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Jean-Marie Lehn
(Louis Pasteur University, France)
1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for introducing a new concept of molecular interaction called "supramolecular chemistry".
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Yoshio Okamoto
(Nagoya University, Japan)
A global authority in the synthesis of optically active polymers by anionic polymerization and the stereospecific radical polymerization of polar monomers. Synthesized optically active helical polymers for the first time.
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Kurt W. Swogger
(The Dow Chemical Company, U.S.A.)
Currently Vice President, Polyolefins & Elastomers R&D at Dow Chemical. Mr. Swogger was also instrumental in Dow Chemical's commercialization of "INSITE" single-site catalysts technology.
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Norio Kashiwa
(Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Japan)
World authority on olefin polymerization catalyst research. Dr. Kashiwa invented for the first time in the world the MgCl2-supported TiCl4 catalysts now being used in 70% of global polyolefins production.
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