[Solved] The Nobel Prize 2016 in chemistry is awarded to whom and for what?

Q.	The Nobel Prize 2016 in chemistry is awarded to whom and for what?
A.	Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
B.	Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
C.	Dan Shechtman for the discovery of quasi crystals.
D.	None of the above
Answer» A. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

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