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Molecular machines trio win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Wednesday, 05 October 2016 6:13 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 05 October 2016 6:15 PM ]

Three scientists, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the design of molecular machines.(AFP)

Three European scientists have been declared as the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, an emeritus professor at the University of Strasbourg, in 2014.

The chemists who are French, Scottish and Dutch, respectively won the prestigious award for the development of revolutionary molecular machines with controllable movements. The miniature machines produce mechanical motion in response to a stimulus.

Bernard L. Feringa, a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands.

They have the potentials to be injected for fighting cancer or to make new types of materials and energy storage devices. Chemistry is the third of this year’s Nobel.

Sir J. Fraser Stoddart works at Northwestern University in Illinois, US.

The Nobel committees have already announced the 2016 winners for medicine and physics. The peace prize will be declared on Friday while economics and literature awards will follow next week.

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