Masayasu Nomura

{{short description|Japanese molecular biologist}}

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| discipline = Biology

| sub_discipline = Molecular biology

| workplaces = University of California, Irvine
University of Wisconsin
Osaka University

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{{nihongo|Masayasu Nomura|野村眞康|Nomura Masayasu|April 1927 – November 19, 2011}} was a Japanese molecular biologist.

Nomura was born in April 1927, a native of Hyōgo Prefecture, and completed a bachelor's degree and doctorate at the University of Tokyo. Nomura began work in 1957 as a postdoctoral researcher in the United States, alongside Sol Spiegelman, James Watson, and Seymour Benzer.{{cite journal |last1=Kresge |first1=Nicole |last2=Simoni |first2=Robert D. |last3=Hill |first3=Robert L. |title=Purification of the Components of the Ribosome and Reconstitution of Active Ribosomes: the Work of Masayasu Nomura |journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry |date=6 April 2007 |page=282, e9 |url=http://www.jbc.org/content/282/14/e9}}{{cite journal |last1=Susman |first1=Millard |title=Masayasu Nomura (1927 – 2011) |journal=ASBMB Today |date=January 2012 |url=http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201201/Retrospective/Nomura/ |accessdate=3 August 2018}} Nomura returned to Japan in 1960, to teach at the Osaka University Institute of Protein Research.{{cite news |title=Masayasu Nomura - Biography |url=http://library.cshl.edu/oralhistory/speaker/masayasu-nomura/ |accessdate=3 August 2018 |publisher=Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}} Three years later, Nomura accepted a position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was named a full professor in 1966, and remained on the faculty until 1984, when he moved to the University of California, Irvine as Grace Bell Professor of Biological Chemistry.{{cite news |title=In memoriam: Molecular biologist Masayasu Nomura |url=https://ecals.cals.wisc.edu/2011/12/05/in-memoriam-masayasu-nomura/ |accessdate=3 August 2018 |publisher=University of Wisconsin–Madison |date=5 December 2011}} Awarded the NAS Award in Molecular Biology in 1971, Nomura gained membership into the National Academy of Sciences itself in 1978.{{cite news |title=Masayasu Nomura |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/52088.html |accessdate=3 August 2018 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences}} He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology, as well as the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Danish Academy of Science.{{cite book|author1=D. J. van de Kaa|author2=Kaa|author3=Y. de Roo|title=De Leden Van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen: Een Demografisch Perspectief: 1808 Tot 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gzNvCGJEGCYC&pg=PA319|date=19 December 2008|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|isbn=978-90-6984-552-4|page=319}} Nomura died in California on 19 November 2011, aged 84.