The Nobel Prize for Chemistry goes to three quantum researchers

The names of the prize winners were announced in a press release sent by email that morning by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) – about four hours before the actual announcement – reported, among others, the radio station SVT and the newspapers “Dagens Nyheter ” and “Aftonbladet”.

Last year the prize went to the two American researchers Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless and their Danish colleague Morten Meldal. They were recognized “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry,” and to the academy as an “ingenious tool for building molecules.” It was Sharpless’s second Nobel Prize in Chemistry after 2001.

The Nobel Prize for Physics went to Austria
The Nobel Prize winners for physics were announced on Tuesday. Hungarian-Austrian researcher and university professor Ferenc Krausz received the prize for his fundamental work in the field of attosecond physics (An attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second, note).

After the science prizes, the Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded as usual on Thursday, followed by the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The final event next Monday is the economics prize – the only one not included in the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.

The prize has a value of approximately 940,000 euros
This year the prize is endowed with eleven million Swedish crowns (about 940,000 euros). The Nobel Foundation has increased the prize money by one million crowns compared to the previous year. The prize is awarded every year on December 10, the anniversary of the death of founder Alfred Nobel.