Reiko Kuroda
Reiko Kuroda (黒田 玲子, Kuroda Reiko, born October 7, 1947)[1] is a Japanese chemist who is a professor at the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo.[2]
Kurodas field of research is primarily chirality within both inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry.[3] She has worked in Japan and the UK and established the Science Interpreter Training Program at the University of Tokyo. In 2006, Kuroda was appointed to serve as a governor for the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.
On June 10, 2009, Dr Kuroda was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in its class for chemistry.[3]
In 2013, Kuroda was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science. She has been nominated for awards by the Human Frontier Science Programme (HFSP) and by AcademiaNet.
References
- ^ International Council for Science (ICSU) Archived 2009-02-05 at the Wayback Machine, candidate presentations, p. 22
- ^ "Trend-Setting Women Scientists of Biomedical Research in Japan" (PDF). International Journal of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ a b Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: Two prominent researchers elected to the Academy's class for chemistry, press announcement, June 30, 2009
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