The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where K. C. Nicolaou sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 1,194 publications — 99th percentile
99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where K. C. Nicolaou sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 160 D-Index — 99th percentile
99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.
K. C. Nicolaou is affiliated with Rice University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Materials Science. Their research spans subfields including Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, and Oncology.
The main topics of their work cover Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Chemical Synthesis and Analysis, Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Cyclization and Aryne Chemistry, and Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Annonaceae.
Frequent coauthors collaborating with Nicolaou include Joseph Sandoval, Monette Aujay, Julia Gavrilyuk, Christine Gu, and Mikhail Hammond.
Nicolaou's publications have appeared notably in venues such as:
Selected recent papers authored by Nicolaou include:
Among the awards received by Nicolaou are the Wolf Prize in Chemistry from the Wolf Foundation in 2016 for advancing chemical synthesis at the interface of chemistry, biology, and medicine, fellowships with the National Academy of Inventors (2015), Royal Society of the United Kingdom (2013), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1999), as well as multiple American Chemical Society honors such as the Arthur C. Cope Award (2005), Ernest Guenther Award (1996), Linus Pauling Award (1996), and William H. Nichols Medal (1996).
Additional recognition includes the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2011), membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2009), fellowship with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993), and early career fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1983) and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1979).
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