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Date of Birth
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15-August-1931
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Place of Birth
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Springfield
(Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States of America, Area code 413)
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Nationality
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United States of America, Philippines
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Also know as
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Richard Heck
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Profession
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Professor
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Richard Fred Heck is an American chemist noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes.
Heck was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on October 6, 2010, with the Japanese chemists Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, for their work in palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions in organic synthesis.
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