The Asian Scientist 100
Kei Ota
Institution
Kindai University
Country
Japan
Field
Chemistry
Ota is the Inspiration Prize winner of the Third Marie Sklodowska Curie Award. She pioneered a new field of elemental chemistry by using boron and nitrogen to synthesize novel inorganic aromatic compounds without carbon in their frameworks and developed compounds with unique bonding motifs.
(Photo: Japan Science and Technology Agency)
AWARDS
- Third Marie Sklodowska Curie Award
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