Nobel Prize Chemistry 2010: 3 Scentists For Work On Palladium

by NowPublic Staff | October 6, 2010 at 07:57 am

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Nobel Prize Chemistry 2010: 1. Akira Suzuki, 80, (Hokkaido University); 2. Ei-ichi Negishi, 75, (Purdue University); 3. Richard F. Heck (University of Delaware)

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The Royal Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 to three scientist for their work on "palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis."

In the 1960s and 1970s, the three scientists, who will split the $1.4 million prize, each independently made advances in using the metal palladium as a catalyst to link together carbon molecules into larger, more complicated structures