# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ryoji-noyori
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:20:34.136Z

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name: "Ryōji Noyori"
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description: "Ryōji Noyori  is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, Noyori shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions."
tagline: "Japanese chemist (1938 - )"
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birthDate: "1938-09-03"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump