Bertozzi, Meldal and Sharpless win 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry By Reuters

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday “for the event of click on chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”.

The prize was awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is value 10 million Swedish crowns ($915,072).

The third of the prizes unveiled over six consecutive weekdays, the chemistry Nobel follows these for medication and physics introduced earlier this week.

Previous chemistry winners embrace well-known scientific names equivalent to Marie Curie, who additionally shared the physics prize together with her husband and whose eldest daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, received the chemistry award simply over twenty years after her mom.

The 2021 chemistry award was received by German Benjamin Record and Scottish-born David MacMillan for his or her work in creating new instruments to construct molecules, aiding within the growth of recent medicine in addition to in areas equivalent to plastics.

The prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace have been established within the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel, himself a chemist, and have been awarded since 1901. Economics was added later.

The prizes have been awarded yearly with a couple of interruptions, primarily for the world wars, and made no break for the COVID-19 pandemic although a lot of the pageantry and occasions have been placed on maintain or briefly moved on-line.

($1 = 10.9281 Swedish crowns)