The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes back to the trio

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2016 has just been awarded to the trio of scientists Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa.

According to the recently announced information, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm has chosen the 2016 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry, the trio of scientists Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa . Their work was honored as "designing and synthesizing molecular machines (also called nano machines)".

Since the first award ceremony in 1901 to date, 107 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to 171 different chemists (including British scientist Frederick Sanger twice honored in 1958 and 1980). ).

Portraits of three scientists have just been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - (Photo: NobelPrize.org).

The field of research "lucky" the Nobel Prize in chemistry is biochemistry. There have been 50 scientists receiving Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research in this field.

So far, four Nobel Prize winners, Marie Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie (the daughter of French scholar Pierre and Marie Curie), Dorothy Hodgkin and Ada Yonath.

Marie Curie is also a special case because she won the Nobel Prize for Physics (1903) with her husband Pierre Curie and H. Becquerel, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911).

The average age of Nobel Prize winners is 58 years old. The youngest scientists who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry were Koichi Tanaka, 33, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Frédéric Joliot, 35, and Irène Joliot-Curie, 38 (won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry). The oldest person, John B. Fenn (USA), received the prize when the scientist was 85 years old.

May 21 and February 28 are two days of the year with many . birthdays of the most Nobel Prize winners.