Thursday, October 7, 2010

Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2010...

Sedang memasak supper... my love said "sayang...nobel prize chemistry kat tv". Terkejut mendengarnya...lantas cepat2 siapkan apa yang patut, terus duduk depan tv. Hari ni sampai lab pagi2 dah browse about the news... because i don't understand all the content which is all in japanese. As a chemist, I am happy and surprised to see two Japanese won the shared award. Bangga la sesama asian kan? Nak tunggu Malaysia dapat award tu..insyaAllah...

Taken from Yahoo news...
"A U.S and 2 japanese scientists won the noble prize of chemistry for inventing new ways to bind carbon atoms with uses that range from fighting cancer to produsing thin computer screens."
"Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki shared the prize for the development of "palladium catalyzed cross-coupling."
"palladium catalyzed cross-coupling is used in research worldwide as well as in the commercial production of for example pharmaceuticals and molecules used in the electronic industry."
The winners from left:
Prof Akira Suzuki 80 y.o (Hokkaido University) "I dont know how much longer i live, but i want to continue to help young people."
Prof Ei-ichi Negishi (Purdue University) "This means a lot. I would be telling a lie f i wasn't thinking about this. I told someone that i began thinking, dreaming about this prize half a century ago."
Prof Richard Heck (University of Delaware) has developed his work in palladium since 1960s while the other two came with their variants in late 1970s.

The 3 winners will split the prize check of USD1.5 million. That's a lot!!! and can help strengthen their research....
further reading...HERE and HERE


4 comments:

NARDtheNERD said...

wow.
i baca blog puan baru tahuuu.
:)

Faarihin said...

wah.. bestnya...

semoga akan datang nanti.. tuan blog plak yang dapat noble prizes yer.. (^__^)

H A N S said...

1.5 million usd. wowwww..manyak nyer..hehehe

Hanis MY said...

Nard... :D

Faarihin..alamak tak terfikir pun hehe...jauh bebeno apapun, aminnn...

Honey..yup2...banyak tuuuu huhu..

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