A Purdue University professor who will receive the Nobel Prize in chemistry in Sweden next week is deciding how he’ll use his new prominence, though he appears focused on finding solutions to energy and food shortages. Professor Ei-ichi Negishi – who is getting offers to speak and teach around the world – said the unfulfilled job of chemistry is to find a safe, renewable energy solution.
“I don’t think chemists can stop wars. That is someone else’s job. But we chemists can definitely solve energy-related issues,” he said.
Negishi, 75, grew up in Japan and has been a member of Purdue’s faculty since 1979. The Nobel committee in October awarded the prize to him and two other scientists for their development in the 1960s and ’70s of new ways to bond carbon atoms together, methods now widely used to make medicines and in agriculture and electronics. Read more from AP.
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