Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. We would like to introduce a few of the Japanese Nobel Prize winners.
[Shirakawa Hideki （白川英樹）/Chemistry, 2000]
Polymer scientist. Sirakawa succeeded in synthesizing a conductive poimer, called “polyacetylene.” It is plastic but possesses many of the same properties as those of metal.

[Noyori Ryoji （野依良治）/Chemistry, 2001]
Organic chemist. noyori developed chiral hydrogen catalysts by using a special agent called BINAP. It has been widely applied in the synthesis of antibiotics and many other pharmaceuticals and in the food industry.

[Koshiba Masatoshi （小柴昌俊）/Physics, 2002]
Physicist. Koshiba’s pioneering work was the detection of neutrios; elemetary particles that come from outer space. he is the founder of the Kamiokande and Super Kamiokande, or gigantic observation detector located 1,000 meters underground at a Kamioka mine site in Gifu prefecture.

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September 12th News, from NILS Japanese language school.