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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 Explore

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2016

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Mahmoud Mahmoud Mahmoud
Jean-Pierre Sir J. Fraser Bernard L. Feringa
Sauvage Stoddart Prize share: 1/3
Prize share: 1/3 Prize share: 1/3
 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 was
awarded jointly to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J.
Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa "for the
design and synthesis of molecular machines."

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Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
Bernard L. Feringa

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Prize announcement

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Announcement of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Professor Göran K. Hansson,
Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 5 October 2016.

Interview about the awarded work

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“They are so small you can’t see them”. Immediately after the announcement, Professor
Sara Snogerup Linse, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, was interviewed by
freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding the 2016 Chemistry Prize.

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Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
Bernard L. Feringa
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