Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou (1946)

Greek Cypriot chemist born in 1946 in Karavas (Cyprus). He studied and obtained his doctorate in London and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia and at Harvard, with E. J. Corey. He was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, at the Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, San Diego, and since 2013 at Rice University (Houston).

He is one of the great specialists in total synthesis: his group completed, among others, those of calicheamicin, taxol, brevetoxin B, vancomycin and the epothilones. With Erik Sorensen he wrote Classics in Total Synthesis (1996), a reference for students of synthesis.

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