A Very Good Week for Kansai Scientists
It has been a very good week for Japanese scientists who work in the Kansai region of Japan. On Monday, Sakaguchi Shimon of Osaka University won the Nobel Prize in Medicine along with two American scientists. Then, yesterday, Kitaguchi Susumu of Kyoto University won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi. All these scientists worked hard for many years, and now the world is learning about their successes. Kitagawa, Robson, and Yaghi developed a new kind of material. It is so small that you can only see it with a powerful microscope. Scientists and engineers hope to use this material to collect water from desert air and to capture CO2. (116 weeks) You can send me a comment or your own story at jaremaga@gmail.com