noble prizes announced
2010 is shaping up to be a big year for carbon at the Nobel Prize committee. After awarding the prize in physics to two Russian-born scientists for their research on the ultra-thin carbon construction known as Graphene, the committee has given the prize in chemistry to three professors who developed a tool for create carbon-carbon bonds. Two of the professors are U.S.-based--Richard Heck of the University of Delaware and Ichi Negishi of Perdue. The third, Akira Suzuki, is a professor at Japan's Hokkaido University