(SOUNDBITE) (English) ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SECRETARY GENERAL, GORAN K. HANSSON, SAYING:“The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.”(SOUNDBITE) (English) NOBEL CHEMISTRY PRIZE WINNER BERNARD L. FERINGA, SAYING: ++AUDIO VIA PHONE++“What I said when I got this message, I said, I don’t know what to say and I’m a bit shocked, you know because it was such a great surprise, and my second remark is that I’m honoured and I’m also emotional about it.”(SOUNDBITE) (English) CHAIRMAN OF THE NOBEL COMMITTEE FOR CHEMISTRY, PROFESSOR SARA SNOGERUP LINSE, SAYING:“We are at the moment exactly at the stepping stone between basic development and applications. We are opening a new molecular era here with this prize, so exactly what will come in the future we can only guess. But one thing that will come for sure are smart materials, materials that you can change the properties, the size or their interaction with other things, when you shine a light on them for example.”