The prize, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, is worth around $915,072.
Stockholm:
The Nobel Chemistry Prize was on Wednesday awarded to a trio of chemists from the US and Denmark who laid the foundation for a more functional form of chemistry.
Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless, together with Denmark’s Morten Meldal, were honoured “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry,” the jury said.
Barry Sharpless has just become the fifth individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes.
He follows in the footsteps of double #NobelPrize laureates John Bardeen, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Linus Pauling and Frederick Sanger.
Sharpless was awarded the chemistry prize in 2001 and 2022 pic.twitter.com/iQg0FL79zg
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2022
The award marks the second Nobel for 81-year-old Sharpless, who won the chemistry Nobel in 2001.
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