Left to right: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard FeringaN. ELMEHED © NOBEL MEDIA 2016
Jean-Pierre Sauvage of the University of Strasbourg, France, J. Fraser Stoddart of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and Bernard Feringa of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, have won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of their contributions to the design and synthesis of molecular machines. The three chemists “have taken molecular systems out of equilibrium’s stalemate and into energy-filled states in which their movements can be controlled,” the Nobel Foundation said in its announcement.
“I’m blown away,” Feringa’s collaborator Wesley Browne, an associate professor of molecular inorganic chemistry at the University of Groningen, told The Scientist. “It’s funny because you expect it for years, but you’re still blown away.”
This morning, while Feringa was in his office on the phone with the ...
