Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016

Jean-Pierre Sauvage

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Prize share: 1/3

Sir J. Fraser Stoddart

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Prize share: 1/3

Bernard L. Feringa

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 was awarded jointly to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"

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