Japanese, U.S. Scientists Share Chemistry Nobel for Carbon Link

Two Japanese scientists and an American researcher whose work paved the way for new medicines and plastics won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing tools to synthesize carbon-based molecules found in nature.

Richard F. Heck, 79, of the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, Akira Suzuki, 80, of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, and Ei-Ichi Negishi, 75, of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, will share the 10 million-kronor ($1.5 million) award, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in Stockholm yesterday.