The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded Wednesday for fundamental discoveries in nanotechnology, particles once considered impossibly small to make.
A screen shows winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, including Moungi Bawendi, left, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov. The winners were announced Wednesday at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to three scientists for fundamental discoveries in nanotechnology, particles once considered impossibly small to make, with applications in television screens and to instruments that allow doctors to see the vasculature of a tumor.
The award stirred controversy because in a highly unusual development, the names of the winners were leaked in Swedish media four hours before they were made public more widely. The Nobel Prize, which includes an award of about $1 million, is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Last year, the Chemistry Nobel went to two Americans, Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless, and to the Danish scientist Morten Meldal for pioneering work in a field known as click chemistry, in which molecular building blocks are snapped together like Lego pieces to create complex molecules used in drug-discovery, medicine and industry.
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