Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 will be announced in Stockholm – Moskovsky Komsomolets

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Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 will present on Wednesday in Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, is responsible for the awarding of prizes. This was reported by the press service of the Nobel Foundation.

The list of possible candidates compiled by journalists on the basis of their own assumptions or messages of those organizations that have submitted their candidate for the award this year is not very long. It should be noted that the prediction of Nobel laureates – a complicated matter. You can make a very long list of possible contenders for the award, but the Nobel Committee will announce the names anyway, that none of the experts did not mention in their assumptions. Although there are years when journalists still manages to predict award winners. But this rarely happens. The list of candidates for the award, compiled directly to the Nobel Committee, the secret and will be published only after 50 years.

In the Swedish Dagens Nyheter gazete odnimi of likely contenders for the award considered Chan Tung (China) and Steven Van Slyke (USA ), created the technology of organic light-emitting diodes. These scientists tipped to awardees and experts, media companies Thomson Reuters, the predictive potential candidates on the basis of the citation of their work and taking into account the key trends in science.

Why would reflect Swedish journalists, the Nobel committee not to call and congratulate in 2014 with the award of John Goodenough, whose work led to the development of lithium-ion batteries. Other no less interesting candidates believe in Sweden and Eudzhina Myers, Craig Venter and Leroy Hood, who developed a model of rapid DNA reading.

In the Thomson Reuters believe that the award can give for the development of mesoporous materials the three scientists – Charles Kresge (Saudi Arabia), Rёnu Ryo (South Korea) and Galen Stucky (USA).

Call of Thomson Reuters and working in Australia Graham Moody Edzio Riddzardo and San Chang, who developed the additive the fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (RAFT).

The award ceremony named among the winners will be held on the tradition in Stockholm on December 10 at the day of death of the founder of the Nobel Prizes – Swedish entrepreneur and inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).

In the past, in 2013 was awarded the prize in chemistry for the development of models of complex chemical systems operating in the United States, Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Ari Uorshelu.