STOCKHOLM, 5 October (BelTA - Xinhua) - The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 is awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world", the Swedish Academy announced in Stockholm on Thursday.
Dubochet, German-born Joachim Frank from Columbia University in New York, and British scientist Richard Henderson from Cambridge University, shared the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Announcing the winners, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the three scientists helped develop a microscope imaging technique to get detailed images of life's complex machinery in atomic resolution.
Their research is "decisive for both the basic understanding of life's chemistry and for the development of pharmaceuticals," according to the academy, which said "This technology has taken biochemistry into a new era."
This year's prize is 9 million SEK (1.1 million U.S. dollars).
