The Latest on the Nobel prize in chemistry (all times local):
12:20 p.m.
Officials at the University of Strasbourg, where Sauvage is a professor emeritus in the Institute of Science and Supramolecular Engineering, said they were overwhelmed and honored by the news. They said Sauvage plans to speak publicly in Strasbourg later Wednesday.
Sauvage’s wife, contacted by telephone, was on the verge of tears as she told people that her husband had won the prize.
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11:55 a.m.
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa have won this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing molecular machines.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says molecular machines “will most likely be used in the development of things such as new materials, sensors and energy storage systems.”