The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 to
Richard F. Heck, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA,
Ei-ichi Negishi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
and
Akira Suzuki, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
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