Trio share Nobel chemistry prize

Scientists from the US, Japan and a Switzerland today shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing methods of identifying and analysing “biological macromolecules,” including proteins.

John Fenn of the United States, Koichi Tanaka of Japan will share one half of the €1m prize, while Kurt Wuethrich of Switzerland will get the other half.

The laureates’ research in mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance has "meant a revolutionary breakthrough, making chemical biology into the ’big science of our time," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in Stockholm.