Meet the Winners of 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Jean Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today announced the winners of Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2016. This prize has been jointly awarded to Jean Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa. The prize, given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, was presented to them “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines (world's smallest machines)”.

Quick Facts about Nobel Chemistry 2016 Awardees

• Jean Pierre Sauvage
  
• From : France
• Born in : 1944
• Working Field : Supramolecular chemistry
• Currently working at : University of Strasbourg, France
• He won this award for : developed the world's smallest machines
• Prize share : 1/3
• Sir Fraser Stoddart
• From : Scotland
• Born in : 1942
• Working Field : Supramolecular chemistry
• Currently working at : Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
• He won this award for : developed the world's smallest machines
• Prize share : 1/3
• Bernard Feringa
• From : Netherlands
• Born in : 1951
• Working Field : Supramolecular chemistry
• Currently working at : University of Groningen, the Netherlands
• He won this award for : developed the world's smallest machines
• Prize share: 1/3

Announcing the Prize today in Stockholm, a statement from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said,"The development of computing demonstrates how the miniaturisation of technology can lead to a revolution. The 2016 Nobel laureates in Chemistry have miniaturised machines and taken chemistry to a new dimension."

Note : The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists, Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for "mechanistic studies of DNA repair”.

Chemistry is the third of this year’s Nobel prizes after the Medicine and Physics laureates were announced on Monday and Tuesday.

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