Three share Nobel chemistry prize
Three scientists have won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a chemical method allowing researchers to make potential cancer drugs and other medicines as well as slimmed-down computer screens.
American Richard Heck, and Japanese Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki were honoured for their development of one of the most sophisticated tools available to chemists today, called palladium-catalysed cross couplings.
The method is used by researchers worldwide and in commercial production of pharmaceuticals and molecules used to make electronics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in Stockholm.
Heck, 79, is a professor emeritus at the University of Delaware. Negishi, 75, is a chemistry professor at Purdue University in Indiana, and 80-year-old Suzuki is a professor at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.
