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Physics center participants win Nobel prize

Three men who have been involved in the Aspen Center for Physics won the Nobel Prize this week.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded half of the prize to David Thouless, who served on the local physics center board for 15 years.The other half is being shared by Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz.
Carolyn Sackariason

Tiny machines win chemistry Nobel prize

Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption Artwork: The scientists are rewarded for their ability to control at the molecular levelThe 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded for the development of the worlds smallest machines.Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa will share the 8m kronor (£727,000) prize for the design and synthesis of machines on a molecular scale.They were named at a press conference in Sweden.
Paul Rincon

Nano-machines win European trio chemistry Nobel prize

A E uropean trio of chemists have won the Nobel prize in chemistry for developing "nano-machines", an advance that paved the way for the worlds first smart materials.Sir Fraser Stoddart, from Scotland, Bernard Feringa, from the Netherlands, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage, from France, will share the 8m Swedish kronor (£718,000) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm today.The Nobel committee described the tools developed by the chemists as the "worlds smallest machines".
Hannah Devlin