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The Nobel Chemistry Prize is awarded to a trio of chemists for laying the foundation for a more functional form of chemistry. Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless, together with Denmark's Morten Meldal are honoured for "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". The award marks the second Nobel for 81-year-old Sharpless, who won the chemistry Nobel in 2001. SOUNDBITE
Canadian David Card, Israeli-American Joshua Angrist and Dutch-American Guido Imbens are awarded the Nobel Economics, announces Göran K. Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. SOUNDBITE
"I'm still trying to find my feet underneath me," Princeton professor David MacMillan tells a press conference after winning the Nobel Chemistry Prize -- an "incredibly surreal" experience, he says -- for his work developing a new tool to scale up chemical reactions in an environmentally friendly way, known as "organocatalysis." SOUNDBITE
Benjamin List, one of the joint winners for the Nobel Chemistry Prize 2021, says he "thought somebody was making a joke" when he received the call from Sweden to inform him of his award. Germany's List won the prize jointly with David MacMillan of the United States for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction. SOUNDBITE
Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General for the Nobel Assembly and the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, announces that US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian have won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch. SOUNDBITE
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.
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