Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou
Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou (born July 5, 1946 in Karavas , Cyprus ) is an American chemist of Cypriot origin.
life and work
KC Nicolaou was born in Cyprus to Costa and Helen Nicolaou, b. Yettimi was born and grew up there. In 1964 he moved to England to learn the language and study chemistry at the University of London . In 1969 he received his bachelor's degree from Bedford College , and in 1972 he received his doctorate from University College London under Professors Franz Sondheimer and Peter J. Garratt . He then became a postdoctoral fellow with Thomas J. Katz at Columbia University , and from 1973 to 1976 with Elias James Corey Jr. at Harvard University . From 1976 to 1989 he worked his way up at the University of Pennsylvania from Assistant Professor to Rhodes Thompson Professor of Chemistry. In 1989 he moved to the University of California, San Diego as a chemistry professor and at the same time as Darlene Shiley professor of chemistry and from 1989 to 2012 chairman of the department of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute . Since 1996 he has also been Aline W. and L. S. Skaggs Professor of Chemical Biology at the same institute.
Nicolaou works in the field of organic chemistry , especially in the synthesis of natural products , including many pharmacologically interesting molecules such as Paclitaxel (Taxol) (1994), Epothilon A and B (1996), Eleutherobin and Sarcodictyin A (both 1997) and Vancomycin (1999), whose total synthesis he succeeded.
On July 15, 1973 Nicolaou married Georgette Karayianni, with whom he has four children: Colette, Alexis, Christopher and Paul.
Publications
Nicolaou is involved in over 800 scientific papers and more than 50 patents.
- with NA Petasis: Selenium in Natural Products Synthesis . CIS Inc., Philadelphia 1984, ISBN 0-914891-00-6 .
- with Erik J. Sorensen: Classics in Total Synthesis. Targets, Strategies, Methods . Wiley-VCH, 1996, ISBN 3-527-29231-4 .
- with Scott A. Snyder: Classics in Total Synthesis II. More Targets, Strategies, Methods . Wiley-VCH, 2003, ISBN 3-527-30684-6 .
- with Tamsyn Montagnon: Molecules that changed the World . Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2006, ISBN 3-527-30983-7
Prices
- Science awards
- 1979–1983 Sloan Research Fellowship
- 1984 Guggenheim scholarship
- 1987/88 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation US Senior Scientist Award (Germany)
- 1993 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
- 1996 William H. Nichols Medal (American Chemical Society, New York Section)
- 1996 Ernest Guenther Award in Chemistry of Natural Products (American Chemical Society)
- 1996 Chemical Pioneer Award (American Institute of Chemists)
- 1996 Linus Pauling Award (American Chemical Society, Puget Sound, Portland, and Oregon Section)
- 1996 Inhoffen Medal
- 2000 Paul Karrer Medal
- 2002 Tetrahedron Prize
- 2001 Ernst Schering Prize (Ernst Schering Research Foundation, Germany)
- 2005 Arthur C. Cope Award (American Chemical Society)
- 2008 August Wilhelm von Hofmann memorial coin
- 2011 Benjamin Franklin Medal
- 2016 Wolf Prize for Chemistry
- Honorary doctorates, professorships, etc. Ä.
- 1980 Honorary Masters (University of Pennsylvania)
- 1994 D.Sc. (University of London)
- 1999 Professor h. c. , Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China
- Honorary doctorates: 1995 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , 1996 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , 1997 University of Cyprus, 1998 University of Alcalá , 1998 University of Crete , 2000 Agricultural University of Athens , 2003 La Sapienza University
Memberships
- American Chemical Society
- Chemical Society London
- Society of German Chemists
- Japanese Chemical Society
- 1987 New York Academy of Sciences
- 1993 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1996 National Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Honorary Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
- 1999 American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2001 foreign member of the Academy of Athens , Greece
- 2007 honorary member of the Indian Academy of Sciences
- 2009 German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina ( Matriculation No. 7254 )
- 2009 Honorary Member of the Israel Chemical Society
- 2011 Honorary Member of the Singapore National Institute of Chemistry
- 2011 American Philosophical Society
- 2013 Foreign member of the Royal Society
literature
- Who's Who in America. 2007, p. 3309, ISBN 0-8379-7006-7
- Leopoldina Newly elected members 2009, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2010, p. 67 ( PDF )
Web links
- Nicolaou's homepage
- CV (English)
- CeMines (TM) Appoints Dr. KC Nicolaou as Co-Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board
- Natural remedies from the chemistry lab. Ernst Schering Prize 2001 goes to natural product chemist Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou
- Literature by and about Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of publications by Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou on the Rice University website, accessed on August 23, 2020.
- ↑ Member entry of Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.
- ^ New Fellows 2013 of the Royal Society (royalsociety.org); Retrieved May 7, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nicolaou, Kyriacos Costa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nicolaou, KC |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist of Cypriot origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karavas , Cyprus |