This years Nobel laureates have now been announced
There are prizes for chemical cages, new immune cells and the roots of quantum computing
KITAGAWA SUSUMU of Kyoto University, Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne and Omar Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley will soon be enjoying a trip to Stockholm. They are this year’s winners of the Nobel chemistry prize, chosen for their work on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). These, said Heiner Linke, who chairs the chemistry-prize committee, are like hotels for chemicals. Or perhaps self-assembling houses, added Olof Ramstrom, another committee member. Or Hermione Granger’s bottomless handbag in the “Harry Potter” books.
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