"The Feringa team is to be congratulated for their excellent work, " said Tour, a professor of chemistry at Rice University, Texas.
Science was a more obvious choice for Stephen Poliakoff, whose father was a physicist and whose brother is a professor of chemistry.
Otto Wichterle, when a professor of chemistry in Prague in the 1950s, had discovered a polymer called hydrogel poly-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, with its affinity for water.
Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of York, Pratibha follows in the footsteps of Professor Frances Ashcroft who won the award for Europe in 2012.
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For Ben King, an associate professor of chemistry at the school, one of the challenges in making the connection between science and technology is the gulf in communication between people.
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The Awards jury was chaired by Professor Ahmed Zewail, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology.
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Nearly three decades later in 2007, while visiting as a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Yazami and Robert Grubbs, also a chemistry professor at the Caltech and the recipient of the 2005 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, were rumored to have made a major breakthrough in carbon-fluoride technology that would revolutionize the field of energy storage.
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Malcolm Hooper, emeritus professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Sunderland, is chief scientific adviser to the UK Gulf Veterans' Association.
Professor of biological chemistry and developmental and cell biology, and co-director of the Center, Peter Donovan, feels the research could have massive benefits.
Others, like Michael North, Professor of Organic Chemistry at Newcastle University in the UK, are looking at transforming CO2 into useful chemical compounds called cyclic carbonates for industrial use.
Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry at MIT.
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After buying a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility with his brother and two partners, he created Orajel with the help of a chemistry professor.
Ilan Benjamin, an Israeli chemistry professor at University of California at Santa Cruz, attended the UPZ-sponsored "Breaking the Silence" event on his campus.
Stedman, a chemistry professor at the University of Denver, said there are several problems with the alcohol fuel, one being that it messed up the fuel pump in a car he uses.
It's a very, very big number says Dan Nocera, chemistry professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Professor Ian MacDonald, an expert in the chemistry of nutrition at the University of Nottingham, said PEDF was one of many chemicals produced by fat cells and it was unclear how they all interacted with each other.
"He has a vision of where things are going in science, and he's smart at putting together the right combination of business and science, " says noted Stanford chemistry professor Harden McConnell.
Professor Jim Iley, executive director of science and education at the Royal Society of Chemistry told BBC News that gaps in data meant there was still a "degree of uncertainty" about the impact of the chemicals.
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