K. C. Nicolaou

K. C. Nicolaou

Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou is a Cypriot-American chemist. K. C. Nicolaou was born on July 5, 1946, in Karavas, Cyprus where he grew up and went to school until the age of 18. In 1964, he went to England where he spent two years learning English and preparing to enter the University. He studied chemistry at the University of London. (B.Sc., 1969, Bedford College; Ph.D. 1972, University College London, with Professors F. Sondheimer and P. J. Garratt). In 1972, he moved to the United States and, after postdoctoral appointments at Columbia University (1972-1973, Professor T. J. Katz) and Harvard University (1973-1976, Professor E. J. Corey), he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania where he became the Rhodes-Thompson Professor of Chemistry.

In 1989, he started at the University of California, San Diego, where he is Professor of Chemistry, and The Scripps Research Institute where he is the Darlene Shiley Professor of Chemistry, and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry. In 1996, he was appointed Aline W. and L.S. Skaggs Professor of Chemical Biology in The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute.

Nicolaou is active in the field of organic chemistry with research interests natural product synthesis and total synthesis. He is responsible for the synthesis of many complex molecules found in nature such as Taxol in the Taxol total synthesis and vancomycin. He is also the co-author of two popular books on total synthesis: Classics in Total Synthesis IRef|Classics1 and IIRef|Classics2.

Awards

K. C. Nicolaou has received numerous awards and honors including:

* Schering Prize (Germany)
* Aspirin Prize (Spain)
* Max Tishler Prize Lecture (Harvard)
* Yamada Prize (Japan)
* Janssen Prize (Belgium)
* Nagoya Medal (Japan)
* Centenary Medal (Royal Society UK)
* Paul Karrer Medal (Switzerland)
* Inhoffen Medal (Germany)
* Nichols Medal (USA)
* Linus Pauling Medal (USA)
* Esselen Award (USA)
* ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (USA)
* ACS Guenther Award in Natural Products Chemistry (USA)
* Nobel Laureate Signature Award
* Tetrahedron Prize Award
* Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
* Member of the National Academy of Sciences
* Several honorary degrees

References

# cite book|last = Nicolaou| first = Kyriacos Costa| coauthors = E. J. Sorensen | title = Classics in Total Synthesis: Targets, Strategies, Methods| publisher = Wiley-VCH | date = 1996 | id = ISBN 3-527-29231-4
# cite book|last = Nicolaou| first = Kyriacos Costa| coauthors = S. A. Snyder | title = Classics in Total Synthesis II: More Targets, Strategies, Methods| publisher = Wiley-VCH | date = 2003 | id = ISBN 3-527-30684-6

External links

* [http://www.scripps.edu/chem/nicolaou/ The Nicolaou group at The Scripps Research Institute]


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