Nobel winner found wandering on road near car containing wife’s dead body

Family believes Ei-ichi Negishi and wife Sumire were heading to Chicago airport

Ei-ichi Negishi was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2010
Ei-ichi Negishi was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2010
(Image credit: HENRIK MONTGOMERY/AFP/Getty Images)

US police are investigating the death of the wife of a Japanese Nobel Prize-winning chemist after her body was discovered at a landfill site in Illinois.

Ei-ichi Negishi and his wife, Sumire, were reported missing on Monday. Ei-ichi was found by police early the next day wandering along a rural Illinois road about 200 miles from the couple’s home in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he is a professor at Purdue University.

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