Yoshihito Kishi, a world-famous chemist and special professor at Nagoya University who succeeded in synthesizing tetrodotoxin, a pufferfish poison, died of a stroke on the 9th of this month, local time, in the United States.
he was 85 years old.
Born in Minokamo City, Gifu Prefecture, Mr. Kishi graduated from Nagoya University and worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, Nagoya University. etc.
Dr. Kishi is engaged in research on artificially creating organic compounds that are produced in the body of living organisms. He made a succession of world-class achievements in the field of synthetic organic chemistry, including successful synthesis.
For these achievements, he was awarded the Japan Academy Prize in 1999 and was selected as a Person of Cultural Merit in 2001.
According to his family, Mr. Kishi had been teaching young researchers at remote seminars until recently, but died of a stroke at a hospital in the state of Massachusetts in the eastern United States on the 9th of this month, local time. That's it.
he was 85 years old.