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Tetsuo Nozoe was born on 16 May, 1902 in Sendai, Japan, is a Tetsuo Nozoe was Japanese organic chemist Japanese organic chemist. Discover Tetsuo Nozoe's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

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Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 16 May, 1902
Birthday 16 May
Birthplace Sendai, Japan
Date of death 4 April, 1996
Died Place Tokyo, Japan
Nationality Japan

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1902

Tetsuo Nozoe (野副 鉄男, 16 May 1902 – 4 April 1996) was a Japanese organic chemist.

He is known for the discovery of hinokitiol, a seven-membered aromatic compound, and studying non-benzenoid aromatic compounds.

Tetsuo Nozoe was born on 16 May 1902 in Sendai to Juichi Nozoe, a lawyer and one-time member of the National Diet, and Toyo Nozoe.

Tetsuo's family was Buddhist except of his mother who was a devout Christian.

Tetsuo had three sisters and seven brothers, and he was the sixth child in the family.

He started doing chemical experiments at home since his junior high school days.

Although his parents wanted him to become a medical doctor, and even sent him for premedical classes, he proceeded his education with chemistry.

1920

After graduating from high school in Sendai, he entered the Department of Chemistry at Tohoku Imperial University in 1920.

In university, he studied organic chemistry under Riko Majima, a leading scientist in organic chemistry in Japan.

1926

In 1926, after graduation he moved to Taihoku, Formosa, where he started working as a researcher at the Camphor Research Laboratories of the Monopoly Bureau and then at the Department of Chemical Industry of the Central Research Institute, both under Government-General of Taipei.

In Formosa, Tetsuo was studying the structures of natural compounds, such as saponins, sapogins, sapogenins, triterpenoids and glycosides, especially in plants found locally.

Nenokichi Hirao, a Japanese chemist, derived a dark-red pigment from hinoki oil and called hinokitin in 1926.

Tetso's research led to discovery of a new series of chemical compounds, non-benzoniod aromatic compounds, including hinokitiol.

He obtained hinokitiol from hinokitin, and showed that hinokitin is an iron complex of hinokitiol, (C10H11O2)3Fe.

1936

It was first published in 1936 in a special issue of the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan.

After three more years of work in Formosa following the World War II, Tetsuo returned to Japan.

As a professor at Tohoku University, he continued his work on hinokitiol.

1937

In 1937, with the help of ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy he predicted the correct structures for oleanolic acid and hederagenin, common sapogenins.

In the same year he became a professor of chemistry at Taihoku Imperial University.

The scope of his research in those times included also studying constituents of wool wax and those of other animal skin waxes.

He discovered lanolinic acids and agnolinic acids, groups of unusual branched chain fatty acids.

One of the most popular works of Tesuo Nozoe was the research on the chemical constituents of taiwanhinoki (Chamaecyparis taiwanensis, Taiwan cypress), a coniferous tree native to Taiwan.

The natural resistance of this and other tree species belonging to Cupressaceae family to fungal wood decay prompted Japanese researchers to study the chemical components of these trees.

1948

Later in 1948, Holger Erdtman, a Scottish organic chemist, reported isolation of three isomeric monoterpenoids (α-, β-, and γ-thujaplicin) from Thuja plicata (Western red cedar) in his paper published in Nature.

After correspondence, both Tetsuo and Holger found that hinokitiol is identical to β-thujaplicin and has a tropolone structure.

Tetsuo Nozoe and Holger Erdtman became lifelong friends.

1951

In 1951, Nozoe got an opportunity to publish his work on hinokitiol and its derivatives in Nature.

He also studied chemical characteristics of tropones, tropolones, other troponoids, and azulenes.

Tetsuo Nozoe was married to Kyoko Horiuchi and had four children – one son and three daughters.

1996

Tetsuo died of cancer on 4 April 1996.

He was collecting autographs and tributes from famous chemists all over the world, including at least 32 Nobel laureates, and had collected more than 4,000 signatures and comments in his note books.

Tetsuo's autograph books, of 1,179 pages, are kept in the archives in Tohoku University.

His son Shigeo, daughter Yoko, grandson and granddaughters also studied chemistry.

Shigeo Nozoe was also a professor of chemistry at Tokohu University.