Japan Nobel winner Ei-ichi Negishi's wife found dead in The United State

The body of 80-year-old Sumire Negishi was found along with the couple’s car at a landfill site shortly after the police found her missing husband. Police have said they do not suspect foul play.

Sumire and her husband had been reported missing from their home in the state of Indiana on Monday. However, police found Mr Negishi wandering along a road near Rockford early on Tuesday morning and had him taken to a hospital. He is a chemistry professor at the Purdue University close to his home in West Lafayette where he lives with his wife.

The Negishi family told local news channel WTHR that they believed the couple had been trying to find their way to the airport and got “disoriented” along the way.

The Orchard Hills Landfill, where she was found, is about 8 miles (12km) from Chicago Rockford International Airport. The family said Mrs Negishi had been “near the end of her battle with Parkinson’s (disease).”

Mr Negishi, a Japanese national who lived in the US, was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2010.

Source: CNN