At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 5, 2024, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Yoshito Kishi was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
Yoshito “Yoshi” Kishi was a renowned chemist whose scientific advances in organic chemistry were among the most impactful in the history of the field.
Although Kishi left Japan for Harvard only a few years into his independent career, he made major contributions to his native land through his mentorship of several generations of Japanese synthetic chemists, many of...
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