Eiichi Negishi, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2010

Ei-ichi Negishi, 根岸 英 (born July 14, 1935) is a Japanese chemist who has spent most of his career at Purdue University, United States. He is best known for his discovery of the Negishi coupling. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for palladium catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" jointly with Richard F. Heck and Akira Suzuki.

Negishi was born in Hsinking, the capital of the Manchukuo, now Changchun of China. He grew up in Seoul, at that time the capital of Japanese-colonial Korea, now the capital of Republic of Korea. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1958, and did his internship at Teijin. He went on to study in the United States and obtained his PhD from University of Pennsylvania in 1963 under the supervision of professor Allan R. Day. In 1966, He became a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University, and became assistant professor in 1968, working with Nobel laureate Herbert C. Brown. In 1972, he went on to become associate professor at Syracuse University where, in 1979, he was promoted to professor. In the same year, he went back to Purdue University.

In 2000, he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship.

In 2011, he was awarded the honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

See also:

• "Ei-ichi Negishi - Biographical". Nobelprize.org.
• "Ei-ichi Negishi - Photo Gallery". Nobelprize.org.

Эйи́ти Нэги́си (яп. 根岸 英一 Нэгиси Эйити, род. 14 июля 1935 года, Чанчунь) — японский[1] химик. Известен за открытие так называемой реакции Нэгиси (англ.). Почётный профессор Университета Пердью (США). Нобелевский лауреат в области химии за 2010 год.