2 Japanese, American share chemistry Nobel

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Source: Washington Post

STOCKHOLM -- American Richard Heck and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing a chemical method that has allowed scientists to make medicines and better electronics.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the award honors their development of "palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic systems."

The academy said it's a "precise and efficient" tool that is used by researchers worldwide, "as well as in the commercial production of for example pharmaceuticals and molecules used in the electronics industry."

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/06/AR2010100600931.html

[Evasporque]

1. Another WMD Award....

Nobel prize awards are from a trust set up from war profits earned for making the WMD's of the day.

Alfred Nobel's patents resulted in the deaths of millions upon millons.

[Catshrink]

2. And he felt guilty about the destruction his discovery wrought

which is why he set up the Nobel Foundation.

[pampango]

3. One of the Japanese researchers has done all his professional work in the US.

Ei-ichi Negishi has taught and researched at Penn, Syracuse and Purdue where his is currently.