Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced in Stockholm – Sight

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will name the name of the winner on Wednesday, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014.

Last year, the award in this area has been awarded to scientists from the United States, Martin Karplus , Michael Levit and Ari Varshelu for the development of “multiscale modeling of complex chemical systems”, reports Tass.

names of the winners are always kept in secrecy. They will learn about the award on the day of the official announcement. Experts tipped scientist award from the United States Craig Venter, Eugene Myers and liroyu hoodoos, distinguished research in the methods of reading DNA. Among the favorites are called Chin Tang (United States, Hong Kong) and Steven van Sleyk (USA) – technology developers OLED screens for smartphones, tablets and high-definition TV.

The award may gain and 92-year-old University of Texas professor John Goodenough, who, along with Stanley Uittinghemom (USA) and Akira Yoshino (Japan) has developed a lithium-ion battery, used in cellular phones, tablet computers and other portable electronics. Among the candidates name and an American scientist Valery Fokin. This 43-year-old native of Nizhny Novgorod and colleagues Barry Sharpless and Michael Finn can be noted for the development of click chemistry – approaches that synthesize substances almost as it occurs naturally in nature, with no by-products and fast.

By the end of September each year for the award candidates nominated by the members of the Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel committee, winners of awards and university professors northern countries. Three quarters of a century all the details of the decisions of the Nobel committees were kept in the strictest confidence, and only in 1974 the Nobel Foundation decided not to publish the archives of the past 50 years. Therefore, on the site of the Nobel Foundation, you can find information about the candidates for the highest award and those who put forward from 1901 to 1964.

According to the rules developed many years ago, the Nobel Prize of physics and chemistry shall be awarded to only the authors of articles published in peer-reviewed print. Opening to be really significant and recognized by the international scientific community. That is why the experimenters often receive a bonus theorists and theorists in turn – only recognized explanation for the well-known phenomenon.

Although the beginning of the Nobel Week is held in the 113th time, awarded the prize in chemistry only the 106th time. For various reasons, chemists were awarded prizes in 1916, 1917, 1924, 1933 and 1940-42 years. Russia’s only Nobel laureate in this area was in 1956, Nikolay Semenov (1896-1986), together with an Englishman Cyril Hinshelwood mechanism for the study of chemical reactions.

Award Ceremony will be held December 10 – in day of the death of its founder Alfred Nobel in Stockholm Philharmonic. From the hands of King Carl XVI Gustav laureates will receive a gold medal with the image of the founder of the prestigious awards and diploma, and the next day the Nobel Foundation will transfer to their bank accounts owed to the monetary component.

In 2011, the Nobel Prize was the sum of 10 million kronor (1.5 million dollars), but it was reduced to 8 million kronor ($ 1.1 million) in 2012.