Subject: The 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

From: John Kerkines <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:11:50 +0300 (EET DST)

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has just announced that the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry for 2001 is awarded for the development of catalytic
assymetric synthesis with one half jointly to:

William S. Knowles, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Ryoji Noyori, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan

"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"

and the other half to:

K. Barry Sharpless, the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, 
USA

"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"

More info on http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/2001/press.html

Please note that this is the centennial of the Nobel Prize: the first
Nobel Prize ever was awarded in 1901.

Regards,
John Kerkines