Ei-ichi Negishi (根岸 英一, Negishi Eiichi, July 14, 1935 – June 6, 2021) was a Japanese chemist who was best known for his discovery of the Negishi coupling. He spent most of his career at Purdue University in the United States, where he was the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor and the director of the Negishi-Brown Institute. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel …

Martin Karplus (born March 15, 1930) is an Austrian and American theoretical chemist.He is the Director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, a joint laboratory between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Strasbourg, France.He is also the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, emeritus at Harvard University.

Biografia. Ha ottenuto il dottorato di ricerca all'Università della California a Berkeley nel 1973. Surfista e contestatore nella Berkeley degli anni sessanta, Mullis è considerato un personaggio alquanto originale e discusso, che spesso si è scontrato con le posizioni "ortodosse" della comunità scientifica. È noto per essere fortemente critico nei confronti della teoria …