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Heck was the only American among the Nobel science winners this year. In recent years, there have been at least two U.S. scientists among the medicine, physics and chemistry laureates; there were none in 1991. 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. "It's a nice thing to have, but I don't think this is going to change my life. I'm too old," Heck told The Associated Press in an interview in his suburban Manila home. Negishi told reporters in Stockholm by telephone from Indiana that he started dreaming about winning the prize half a century ago. "The Nobel Prize became a realistic dream of mine when I was in my 20s," he said, adding he would use his third of the $1.5 million (10 million kronor) award to continue doing research. "I may have accomplished maybe half of my goals, and I definitely would like to work for at least a couple more years," Negishi said.
Suzuki, in a televised news conference from Hokkaido University, said he hoped the prize would inspire Japanese youngsters to explore chemistry. "To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry," Suzuki said. The literature prize will be announced on Thursday, followed by the peace prize on Friday and economics on Monday, Oct. 11. The awards were established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel -- the inventor of dynamite
-- and are always handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of his death in 1896. ___ Online:
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