Jean-Pierre Sauvage of France, Scotland's Fraser Stoddart and Dutch Bernard Feringa developed molecules with controllable movements
The winners "opened the door on an unknown world where matter can assume strange states," the academy said
British scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz's studies of unusual states of matter may open up new applications in electronics
Physiology or medicine prize, the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year, is worth $933,000