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  • American Richard Heck, 79, and his Filipino wife, Socorro, display some of his awards during an interview with the Associated Press at their residence at Manila's Quezon city in the Philippines shortly after the Royal Academy of Sciences announced in Sweden he won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

    American, 2 Japanese win chemistry Nobel

    An American and two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for finding new ways to bond carbon atoms together, methods now widely used to make medicines and in agriculture and electronics.

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  • Mr. Heck, who has retired from active research, said the award would probably not spur any major change in his settled life in the Philippines, where he lives with his Filipino wife and tends to an orchid garden and pet birds.

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  • "It's a nice thing to have but I don't think this is going to change my life. I'm too old," Mr. Heck told the Associated Press in an interview in his suburban Manila home.

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