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Kyriakos Costa Nicolaou

キリアコス・コスタ・ニコラウ　/　きりあこす・こすた・にこらう

Chemist from Cyprus

July 5, 1946 (age 79)　・　Karavas, Cyprus

chemist
university teacher

My Take

Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou is the rare scientist whose work I'd genuinely call artistry. A Greek Cypriot-American chemist, he's renowned for total synthesis of natural products, which is essentially building staggeringly complex molecules from scratch. What impresses me is the sheer weight of recognition here: the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the Benjamin Franklin Medal, the Arthur C. Cope Award and more. That's not a lucky streak; that's a career defining a field. Holding an endowed professorship at Rice after Scripps and Penn, he reminds me that the most consequential people in any database aren't always the famous faces, but the minds quietly reshaping what's possible.

Overview

Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou (Greek: Κυριάκος Κ. Νικολάου; born 5 July 1946) is a Greek Cypriot-American chemist known for his research in the area of natural products total synthesis. He is currently Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Chemistry at Rice University, having previously held academic positions at The Scripps Research Institute/UC San Diego and the University of Pennsylvania.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Kyriakos Costa Nicolaou
Name (Japanese): キリアコス・コスタ・ニコラウ
Reading: きりあこす・こすた・にこらう
Born: July 5, 1946 (age 79)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Cancer / Dog
Origin: Karavas, Cyprus
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: chemist / university teacher

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: University College London

Awards & achievements

2011 Benjamin Franklin Medal
2001 Ernst Schering Prize
1993 ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,
2016 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
2005 Arthur C. Cope Award
1996 Inhoffen-Medaille
2008 August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal
2001 Centenary Prize

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6

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