Ryoji Noyori

Enantiomers often smell and taste differently.

Molecular chirality plays a key role in science and technology. In particular, life depends on molecular chirality in that many biological functions are inherently dissymmetric.

In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.