The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded today, for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules”, to John B. Fenn of the USA and Koichi Tanaka of Japan for “their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules”, and to Kurt Wthrich of Switzerland for “his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution”. The press release can be found here.