Barry Trost

Barry Trost is the sort of figure who reshapes a field without much fanfare. Having the Tsuji-Trost reaction and the Trost ligand bear your name is impressive enough, but championing atom economy is the deeper legacy: he helped turn synthetic chemistry toward doing more with less waste, an idea that now feels almost moral. The wall of honors, including Japan's Noyori Prize, only confirms it. What I respect most is that he changed not just what chemists make but how they think about making it. That is influence at the level of a discipline's conscience, and it is genuinely rare.

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Name (English)

Barry Trost

Name (Japanese)

バリー・トロスト

Reading

ばりー・とろすと

Born

June 13, 1941 (age 85)

Origin

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

chemist / university teacher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Snake

University

University of Pennsylvania

Awards & achievements

• 1977 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry
• 1981 ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,
• 2004 Arthur C. Cope Award
• 2014 August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal
• 1981 Centenary Prize
• 2013 Ryoji Noyori Prize
• 1995 Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry
• 2000 William H. Nichols Medal

• Official sitehttps://profiles.stanford.edu/barry-trost
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Trost
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q725840

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• chemist
• university teacher

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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