Notable Alumni and Affiliates
- include four Nobel Prize winners.
- Dr. Ryōji Noyori, one of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners spent most of his academic career researching and teaching at the university.
- Reiji Okazaki (岡崎令治), discoverer of the Okazaki fragments, graduated from Nagoya and was a professor at the university.
- Yoshinori Kidani, discoverer of the cancer drug oxaliplatin.
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