Nobel Prize 2022 in Chemistry awarded to Morten Meldal, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, K. Barry Sharpless. Details here

Nobel Prize 2022 in Chemistry has been shared by Morten Meldal, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, and K. Barry Sharpless for developing a way of snapping molecules together.

The winners were revealed at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, on Wednesday by Hans Ellegren, the secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Last year, physicists Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan were awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering an inventive and ecologically cleaner technique to manufacture molecules, which the Nobel panel stated is already tremendously helping humanity.


The prize in medicine recognizing a scientist who unearthed the mysteries of Neanderthal DNA started a week of Nobel Prize announcements on Monday. Three scientists shared the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for demonstrating that even when separated, small particles may maintain contact.



The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be revealed on Friday, while the economics prize will announce on October 10.

For the unknown Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi is a well-known American scientist, and Nobel laureate noted for her contributions to chemistry and biology. Morten Peter Meldal is a Danish chemist. He is a Chemistry professor at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. Karl Barry Sharpless is a two-time Nobel laureate in Chemistry notable for his work on stereoselective processes and clicks chemistry.

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