These are the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winners

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 has been announced. In a press release published by Nobel Prize it said the

“The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”.

Sharpless and Meldal have laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry – click chemistry – in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently. Bertozzi has taken click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilising it in living organisms.

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The Three 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winners

Facts About The Three 2022 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry

Carolyn Bertozzi

Carolyn R. Bertozzi
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022

Born: 1966, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Prize motivation: “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”

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Morten Meldal
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022

Born: 1954, Denmark

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Prize motivation: “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”

Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

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