(2)Ryoji Noyori awarded Nobel chemistry prize

(2)Ryoji Noyori awarded Nobel chemistry prize

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10 Kyodo - Ryoji Noyori, one of this year's winners of the Nobel chemistry prize, shows off his medal in Stockholm on Dec. 10 after the award ceremony. Noyori, a chemistry professor from Nagoya University, received the prize along with two U.S. chemists -- William Knowles and K. Barry Sharpless.

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