The three laurates of 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. /Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded jointly to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday, complementing their efforts in "the development of click chemistry and biorthogonal chemistry."
According to the academy, click chemistry is different from other fields of chemistry because "molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently" like clicking.
U.S.-born Sharpless and Danish Professor Meldal "laid the foundation" for click chemistry while Stanford University Professor Bertozzi took it "to a new dimension" in lifeforms, said the academy.
The results of their research have been widely used in developing pharmaceuticals, mapping DNA and creating more useful chemicals.
