Ei-ichi Negishi

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010
Nobel Co recipients Richard F. Heck, Akira Suzuki

Organic Chemist. Inventor of organozinc variant of the palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reaction. Read voraciously including "how to …" publications. Dreamt of Nobel half century prior to being awarded prize. Upon arriving in US and discovering Nobelists visiting UPenn, realized that being awarded the Nobel could happen to anybody including himself.

Dreaming of Prize

"I was dreaming about this prize half a century ago," he said by phone to the Nobel news conference. "When I came to America and when I encountered several Nobel laureates coming to UPenn in Philadelphia, I realized it's not a story but it's a reality, and it can happen to anyone including myself."