Thursday, 6 October 2016

Jean-Pierre Sauvage , Fraser Stoddart , Ben Feringa won Nobel prize in which discipline?

Jean-Pierre Sauvage , Fraser Stoddart , Ben Feringa won Nobel prize in which discipline?

Options

1)Physics

2)Chemistry

3)Medicine

4)Literature

answer

2)Chemistry


Other details

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa  won theprize for the design and synthesis of machines on a molecular scale.

Jean-Pierre Sauvage  is a French coordination chemist working at Strasbourg University.

He has specialized in supramolecular chemistry

Sir James Fraser Stoddart  is a Scottish chemist working at the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in the United States.


Bernard Lucas   Feringa  is a synthetic organic chemist, specializing in molecular nanotechnology and homogenous catalysis