Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 awarded to American and Two Japanese.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 to three men dedicated to improving complex-carbon based molecules in the laboratory, for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis to be exact. They are:

• Richard F. Heck, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA,
• Ei-ichi Negishi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
• Akira Suzuki, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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Sources: "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010". Nobelprize.org. 7 Oct 2010, NPR.Org