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Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announces that John Goodenough of US, Britain's Stanley Whittingham and Japan's Akira Yoshino win the 2019 Nobel Chemistry Prize. SOUNDBITE
Princeton, Oct 6 (EFE/EPA).- Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their "development of asymmetric organocatalysis,” the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced on Wednesday.Their work has had a “great impact on pharmaceutical research and has made chemistry greener,” it added.The two scientists have received the prestigious prize for developing a third catalyst in 2000 after researchers believed there were only two types of catalysts. (Camera: JUSTIN LANE). SHOT LIST: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DAVID MACMILLAN SPEAKS DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE HELD AFTER HE WAS AWARDED THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY ALONG WITH GERMAN CHEMIST BENJAMIN LIST, AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY IN PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, US.
Muehlheim an der Ruhr (Germany), October 6 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Friedemann Vogel) German scientist Benjamin List wins the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.FOOTAGE FROM LIST DURING THE PRESS CONFERENCE
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa win the Nobel chemistry prize for work on molecular machines that may lead to the development of new materials, sensors and energy storage systems. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
The Nobel prize in economics is awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for helping understand the role of women in the labour market. The Harvard professor, who is the third woman to be awarded the prestigious economics prize, was given the nod "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes," says Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. SOUNDBITE
The Swedish Academy announces Norway's Jon Fosse as this year's winner of the Nobel literature prize "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable", says Mats Malm, the academy's permanent secretary. SOUNDBITE