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Trio wins Nobel for developing key chemistry tool (AP)

October 6th, 2010

American Richard Heck and his Filipino wife Socorro, kiss during an interview with the Associated Press at their residence at Manila's Quezon city in the Philippines shortly after The Royal Academy of Sciences announced in Sweden he won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday Oct.6, 2010. Heck, a long-time resident in the Philippines and married to a Filipino, and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki won the Nobel Prize for developing a chemical method that has allowed scientists to test cancer drugs and make thinner computer screens. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - A method for building complex molecules has paid off by helping to fight cancer, protect crops and make electronic devices — and now it has earned its developers a Nobel Prize.


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