Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded for fluorescence microscopy – Russian Newspaper

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the creation of high-resolution fluorescence microscopy awarded to Americans Eric Betsigu and William Merner and scientist from Germany Stefan Hella. The award is about $ 1.1 million.

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As is the case with medicine and physics respected experts in their forecasts given a miss, do not guess the winners in chemistry. It should be noted that these scientists have won a hard struggle with many worthy contenders. This year’s Nobel race was just a few favorites. First of all, Chin Tang (United States, Hong Kong), and Steven van Sleyk (USA), who invented the OLEDs, which is used in smartphones, tablets and HDTVs. But after the announcement yesterday Prize in Physics for the creation of blue LEDs, it became clear that this theme this year is no chance.

Among the candidates named Charles Kresge from Saudi Arabia, Ryo Ryong of South Korea and American Gelena Stuckey, establishing the mesoporous materials. Their main advantage – is available in the structure cavities and channels with a diameter of 2-50 nm. These nanomaterials are today widely used as catalysts, adsorbents, sensors and chemistry, electronics, medicine and other areas of the economy.

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Lost Nobel race and yet another favorite. It Australians Graham Moody Edzio Riddzardo and Sanya Thanh, who created the technology that allows you to get the substance of different structure and different properties. They can be used, for example, in medicine for drug delivery in different parts of the body.

Experts predicted reward Americans Craig Venter, Eugene Myers and liroyu Hoodoo for research in the field of reading DNA, as well as Americans John Goodenough and Stanley Uittinghemu and the Japanese composer Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries used in cellular phones, tablet computers and other portable electronics.

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Among the winners could be 43-year-old native of Nizhny Novgorod Valery Fokin, who now works in the United States. Together with colleagues Barry Sharpless and Michael Finn, he develops the so-called click-chemistry. We are talking about the methods that can generate a substance almost as much as it occurs naturally in nature, quickly, and without by-products.

In the past year the award for chemistry was awarded to scientists from the United States, Martin Karplus, Michael Levit and Ari Varshelu for the development of “multiscale modeling of complex chemical systems”.

awards ceremony will be held in Stockholm City Hall, December 10 – the day of the death of its founder, Alfred Nobel. From the hands of the King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf laureates will receive a gold medal with the image of the founder of the prestigious awards and certificate.

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Although the beginning of the Nobel Week is held in the 113th time Prize in Chemistry is awarded only 106 th time. For various reasons, chemists were awarded prizes in 1916, 1917, 1924, 1933 and 1940-42 respectively.

Leaders in the number of premiums in Chemistry is the United States – 65 Germany – 28 and the UK – only 25 Russian Nobel laureate in this area was in 1956, Nikolai Semyonov, together with Englishman Cyril Hinshelwood mechanism for the study of chemical reactions.