Three share chemistry award
NZPA-Reuter Stockholm Three North Americans share the 1986 Nobel Chemistry Prize. The two-million crown award ($571,300) was made jointly to Professor Dudley Herschbach, aged 54, of Harvard University; Professor Yuan Tseh Lee, aged 49, of University of California, Berkeley; and Professor John Polanyi, agedjs7, of the University of iWonto.
Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences said the three had been honoured for their discoveries in the field of reaction dynamics, that shed new light on how the many, thousands of elements in nature react when their molecules collide. This was essential for understanding, and eventually controlling, chemical reactions. The Academy, said the plotting and knowlefe of
chemical reactions — vital to the understanding of nature — was greatly enhanced by the three laureates’ work. The field is very new and only began to be developed in the 19605. Professors Herschbach and Lee, who used to work together, pioneered a system known as “crossed molecular beams” which aids observation during chemical reaction.
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Press, 17 October 1986, Page 6
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