Nobel Prize laureate to lead top gov't laboratory

Nobel Prize laureate to lead top gov't laboratory

NAGOYA, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, speaks at Nagoya University on July 22 about being appointed president of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken). (Kyodo)

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