Nobel Prize 2022 in Chemistry

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was recently awarded to Barry Sharpless, Morton Meldl and Caroline Bertozzi.

• Caroline Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless from the US and Morten Meldl from Denmark received the Nobel Prize for pioneering the new field of click chemistry and demonstrating their potential in medicine and other fields.

• They have discovered reactions that allow molecules to snap together, enable the formation of new compounds and provide insight into cell biology.

• With the recent Nobel Prize, Dr. Sharpless became one of the few scientists to receive two Nobel Prizes.

• He won this prestigious award in 2001.