Chemistry Nobel Prize: Machines Too Small to See
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Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:49.3 | Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on October 5th, 2016. I'm Steve Merski. This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is about the world's smallest machines. |
| 0:55.8 | John Hanson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences earlier today before a group |
| 1:01.3 | of reporters. |
| 1:02.3 | The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| 1:10.0 | jointly to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir James Fraser Stoddart, |
| 1:16.6 | and Bernard L. Ferengs for the design and synthesis of molecular machines. |
| 1:25.6 | Jean-Pierre Sauvge was born in Paris in 1944. |
| 1:30.3 | He is now Emeritus Professor at the University of Strasbourg |
| 1:35.3 | and Director of Research Emeritus at the Center National |
| 1:39.3 | de la Recher Scientific CNRS in Strasbourg in France. |
| 1:45.0 | Sir James Fraser Stoddart was born in |
| 1:48.0 | 1942 in Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. |
| 1:52.0 | He is currently the Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry |
| 1:57.0 | at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States. |
| 2:03.9 | And Bernard or Ben Ferrincha was born in 1951 in Barger-Compascom in the Netherlands. |
| 2:13.5 | He is professor of organic chemistry at the University of Kroning in the Netherlands. |
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