Chemistry.The 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Swedish: Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the six Nobel Prizes. The first prize was awarded in 1901. , announced as SCIENCE NEWS was going to press, recognizes the development of molecules for catalyzing fundamental reactions used to make countless pharmaceuticals. Many molecules, like gloves, exist in distinct left- and right-handed forms. The winners' catalysts enable chemists to make only the desired form of a product. William S William, crown prince of Germany William or Frederick William, 1882–1951, crown prince of Germany, son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack . Knowles, a chemist retired from Monsanto in St. Louis, Mo., shares half of the prize with Ryoji Noyori of Nagoya University Nagoya University (名古屋大学 Nagoya daigaku in Japan. The other half goes to K. Barry Sharpless of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla La Jolla (lə hoi`yə), on the Pacific Ocean, S Calif., an uninc. district within the confines of San Diego; founded 1869. The beautiful ocean beaches, in particular La Jolla shores and Black's Beach, and sea-washed caves attract visitors and , Calif. Look for more on their research in next week's SCIENCE NEWS. |
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