Stockholm, Oct 5 (Reuters): Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on the design and synthesis of molecular machines, the award-giving body said on Wednesday.

”They have developed molecules with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement awarding the $931,000 prize.

Chemistry is the third of this year's Nobel prizes after the medicine and physics laureates were announced on Monday and Tuesday.