The three scientists were the elect of the Academy, “design and synthesis of molecular machines”
COPENHAGEN.- The French Jean-Pierre Savage, the british J. Frasser Stoddart and the Dutch Bernard Feringe were honored today with the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines, announced the Royal Academy of Sciences Swedish.
molecular machines “likely to be used in the development of such things as new materials, sensors and energy storage systems,” stated the jury in announcing the award.
The three scientists developed molecules with controllable movements that can realiar tasks when they are added energy. The development of computing shows how the miniaturization of technology can produce a genuine revolution, and the Nobel prize of this year miniaturizaron machines and took chemistry to a new dimension, according to the press release from the Academy.
The first steps towards the creation of molecular machines and gave Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 1983, where he managed to link the two circular molecules to form a chain, called catenano.
Fraser Stoddart went on to the next level in 1991, to develop a rotaxane, a molecular architecture mechanically interlocked which consists of a molecule with the shape of a dumbbell, in which the ring molecular was able to move along the axis formed by another molecule elongated. Finally, Bernard Feringa was the first who developed a molecular motor in 1999.
The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 1901 to the dutchman, Jacobus H. van ‘t Hoff, discoverer of the laws of dynamics, chemistry and osmotic pressure in solutions.
The Chemistry is the ultimate prize in science, which are delivery this year. The Medicine was for the biologist, the japanese Yoshinori Ohsumi for discoveries relating to autophagy, a process in which a cell breaks down and recycles its content. The scientists of british origin David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz won the of Physics for his discoveries theorists who revealed the secrets of the exotic matter.
on Friday we will know who won the Nobel Peace prize, while the winners in the categories of Economics, and Literature will know next week.
The winners also receive a medal and a diploma at the award ceremony held on 10 December, on the anniversary of the death in 1896 of the founder of the awards, Alfred Nobel.
2006 – The american Roger D. Kornberg, for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription.
2007 – The German Gerhard Ertl, for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces, as for example those that occur in a catalyst for automotive.
2008 – The japanese Osamu Shimomura and americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien for “the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP, according to its acronym in English),” a key tool used in the investigation of biological processes.
2009 – americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and israeli Ada Yonath, for the discovery of the structure and function of ribosomes, the “factories” of cell proteins.
2010 – The american Richard Heck and the japanese Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, “development of new methods and more efficient to unite carbon atoms to synthesize the complex molecules that improve the daily life of man.”
2011 – The israeli Daniel Shechtman for the discovery of quasicrystals.
2012 – The us Brian K Kobilka and Robert J Lefkowitz, by the discovery of receptors that transmit large amount of signals from the outside cells of the organism.
2013 – american Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel, for the development of models for multiscale systems complex chemical.
2014 – americans Eric Betzig and William E. Moerner next to the German Stefan W. Hell, by the development of the fluorescence microscope superresolution.
2015 – The swede Thomas Lindahl, the american Paul Modrich, and the Turkish american Aziz Sancar won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 for his studies on the mechanism of DNA repair.
Agencies, AP, DPA and EFE
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