Koji
Nakanishi Date of birth:
May 11, 1925, Hong Kong
Home address: 560 Riverside Drive, Apt 9J,
New York, New York 10027
tel.
212-663-7605, fax 212-932-6289, e-mail <kn5@columbia.edu>
Office
address: Dept. Chem., Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Education:
B.Sc.: Department of
Chemistry, Nagoya University 1947
Post-graduate:
Harvard University (L.F. Fieser) 1950-52
Ph.D.:
Nagoya University (F.Egami/Y.Hirata) 1954
EMPLOYMENT:
Assistant
Professor, Dept. Chem., Nagoya University 1955-58
Professor,
Dept. Chem., Tokyo Kyoiku University 1958-63
Professor,
Dept. Chem., Tohoku University, Sendai 1963-69
Professor,
Dept. Chem., Columbia Univ. 1969-80
Centennial
Professor, Dept. Chem., Columbia Univ. 1980-
Director
of Research, Intl. Centre Insect Physiol. & Ecol., Kenya 1969-77
Director,
Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research, Osaka 1979-91
Director
of Chem. Unit, Columbia U. Biosphere 2 Center, Arizona 2001-2003
PAPERS: ca. 800.
BOOKS: Authored, co-authored, edited 9 books,
co-edited a 9-volume series on natural products.
Infrared
Absorption Spectroscopy-Practical, 1962
& 1977, pp.287, Holden-Day/Nankodo.
Natural
Products Chemistry, Vol.I,
1974, pp.562; Vol. II, 1975, pp.586; Vol. III, 1983, pp.700. Kodansha/Academic
Press.
Circular
Dichroic Spectroscopy-Exciton Coupling in Organic Stereochemistry, with N. Harada, 1983, pp. 460, University
Science Books/Tokyo Kagaku Dojin
Biophys.
Studies of Retinal Proteins,
1987, pp.304, co-ed. T.G. Ebrey, B. Honig, H. Frauenfelder, U. Illinois Press.
One-Dimensional
& Two-Dimensional NMR Spectra by Modern Pulse Techniques, 1990, pp.234, ed., Kodansha/University
Science Books.
A
Wandering Natural Products Chemist (autobiography),1991,
pp.230, Am. Chem. Soc.
Comprehensive
Natural Products Chemistry,
1999, 9 vols., co-ed. D.H.R. Barton, O. Mett-Cohn, Elsevier.
Circular
Dichroism, 1994 &
2000, pp.877, co-ed. N. Berova, R.W. Woody, Wiley-VCH, New York.
AWARDS:
Award
in Pure Chemistry, Chem. Soc. Japan (1954);
Asahi
Cultural Prize (1968);
Schering
Prize (1976)
E.
Guenther Award, Am. Chem. Soc. (1978);
Scientific
Workers Union Medal, Bulgaria (1978);
Chem.
Soc. Japan Award (1979);
Centenary
Medal, British Chem. Soc.(1979);
E.E.Smissman
Medal, Univ. Kansas (1979);
H.C.Urey
Award, Columbia Univ. (1980);
1
st Remsen Award, Am. Chem. Soc., Maryland Section (1981);
1
st Research Achievement Award, Am. Soc. Pharmacognosy (1985);
Alcon
Ophthalmology Award (1986);
Paul
Karrer Gold Medal, Univ. Zurich(1986);
E.
Havinga Medal, Havinga Foundation, Leiden (1989);
Imperial
Prize of Japan Academy (1990);
Japan
Academy Prize (1990);
A.C.
Cope Award, Am. Chem. Soc.(1990);
R.T.
Major Medal, Univ. Connecticut (1991);
L.E.
Harris Award, Univ. Nebraska (1991);
Nichols
Medal, Am. Chem. Soc., New York Section (1992);
Scheele
Award, Swedish Acad. Pharm. Sciences (1992);
Mosher
Award, Am. Chem. Soc., Santa Clara Valley Section (1994);
Schering
Prize (1994)
National
Acad. Sciences Award in Chem. Sciences (1994);
Chirality
Gold Medal, Intnl. Symp. Chirality (1995);
Am.
Chem. Soc. Intnl. Award in Agrochemicals (1995);
J.
Heyrovsky Honorary Gold Medal, Czech Acad. Sciences (1995);
Robert
A. Welch Award in Chem. (1996);
ÒPerson
of Cultural MeritÓ Award, Japanese Government (1999);
1st
Environmental Award, Am. Museum Natural History, Friends of Fishes (2000);
Arun
Guthikonda Research Achievement Award (2000);
1st
K. T. Wang Bioorganic Award (Bioorg. Chem. Foundation, Taipei, 2001);
King
Faisal International Prize, King Faisal Foundation (2003):
Tetrahedron
Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry (2005);
Nagoya
Gold Medal (2005)
International
Soc. Chem. Ecology Silver Medal (2007)
HONORS:
Nakanishi
Prize established jointly in 1996 by Am. Chem. Soc. & Chem. Soc. Japan, to recognize
achievements in chemical and spectroscopic methods in the study of biological
phenomena; Honorary issues of Chirality,, 9;
Nos. 5 & 6 (1997);
Honorary
issues of Heterocycles, 47,
Nos. 1 & 2. (1998)
Honorary
issue of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 13, no. 17, 4973-5320 (2005).
ÒThe
Biology-Chemistry Interface – A Tribute to Koji NakanishiÓ R. Cooper,
J.K. Snyder ed., Marcel Dekker, Inc., pp. 491 (1998)
ÒAdvances
in Natural Product Chemistry: In Honor of Professor NakanishiÕs 80th
birthdayÓ, 2005 A symposium at Pacifichem (2005)
Fellow :Am. Acad. Arts & Sciences (1973); NY Acad. Science (1980); Am. Soc. Pharmcognosy (1985); Academia Nazionale delle Scienze, Italy (1993); Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1996).
D.
Sc.: Williams College
(1987); Georgetown Univ. (1992).
Dr.
of Honor in Pharmacy.
Uppsala Univ. (2005)
Hon.
Prof.: Shanghai Inst.
Materia Medica (1995); Tohoku University (2003).
Hon.
Member: Pharm. Soc. Japan
(1991); Chem. Soc. Japan (1997); Biochem. Soc. Japan (2002).