Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2021: prediction of the monk of the XIII century

There lived in the XIII-XIV centuries the monk Okkam William. Today him consider as one of the greatest logicians in the history of mankind. He liked to philosophize and guessed simple truth: "Among a set of solutions of one problem the best is the simplest answer". This principle is known as "Okkam's razor". Having used simple idea, chemists learned to create new molecules, for what got Nobel Prize. "Lego" bricks Many molecules are already created by the nature. And the principle is reminded by the designer of "Lego". For example, two atoms oxygen, connected together, form a molecule oxygen (O2). In...