K. C. Nicolaou
Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou () er en cypriotisk-amerikansk kemiker, der er kendt for sin forskning i totalsyntese af naturprodukter. Han er ansat som Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Chemistry på Rice University, og han har tidligere arbejdet på både The Scripps Research Institute/UC San Diego and the University of Pennsylvania.

Priser 
 2016 Wolf Prize in Chemistry (Israel)
 2011 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry (Franklin Institute USA)
 2005 Arthur C. Cope Award (USA)
 2003 Nobel Laureate Signature Award in Graduate Education (with Phil S. Baran)
 2002 Tetrahedron Prize
 2001 Ernst Schering Prize (Tyskland)
 2000 Paul Karrer Gold Medal (Schweiz)
 1998 Esselen Award (USA)
 1996 Linus Pauling Award (USA)
 Aspirin Prize (Spain)
 Max Tishler Prize Lecture (Harvard)
 Yamada Prize (Japan)
 Janssen Prize (Belgium)
 Nagoya Medal (Japan)
 Centenary Medal (Royal Society UK)
 Inhoffen Medal (Germany)
 Nichols Medal (USA)
 ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (USA)
 ACS Guenther Award in Natural Products Chemistry (USA)
 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 Member of the National Academy of Sciences
 Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2013)

Bibliografi 
Han har skrevet tre bøger om totalsyntese:
 Nicolaou, Kyriacos Costa; E. J. Sorensen (1996). Classics in Total Synthesis: Targets, Strategies, Methods. Wiley-VCH. .
 Nicolaou, Kyriacos Costa; S. A. Snyder (2003). Classics in Total Synthesis II: More Targets, Strategies, Methods. Wiley-VCH. .
 Nicolaou, Kyriacos Costa; J.S. Chen (2011). Classics in Total Synthesis III: Further Targets, Strategies, Methods. Wiley-VCH. .

Derudover har han været medforfatter på adskillige andre bøger:
 Molecules That Changed the World, 2008
 Handbook of Combinatorial Chemistry: Drugs, Catalysts, Materials, 2002
 Selenium in Natural Products Synthesis, 1984

Referencer 

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