Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, Barry Sharpless win Chemistry Nobel Prize
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless have jointly won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry this year. They have received the prestigious award for developing new ways to join molecules together. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences made the announcement in Stockholm. Last year, the award was won by Benjamin List and David MacMillan.
The trio won Nobel for their contributions to click chemistry
Bertozzi, Meldal, and Sharpless won the Nobel Prize "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry." Sharpless and Meldal are considered the pioneers of click chemistry, a functional form of chemistry where molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently. Bertozzi, on the other hand, is credited with taking the field to another dimension. This is Sharpless' second Nobel win (first in 2001).
