STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Richard Heck of the United States and Japan's Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki shared the 2010 Nobel Chemistry Prize Wednesday for pioneering research in linking carbon atoms.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences lauded the trio's work in "the development of palladium-catalysed cross coupling."
The jury said the tool "vastly improved the possibilities for chemists to create sophisticated chemicals," and had applications in the medical, electronics and agricultural fields.
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