Karl Barry Sharpless
China News Service, October 5th According to the official website of Nobel Prize , 81-year-old Karl Barry Sharpless, one of the winners of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2022, became the fifth person to win the Nobel Prize twice.
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In 2001, Sharples, William Knowles and Ryoji Noi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry that year for his achievements in the field of "chiral catalytic oxidation reaction".
On the afternoon of October 5, 2022, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless in recognition of their contributions to "click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry".
Karl Barry Sharpless:
Karl Barry Sharpless (English: K. Barry Sharpless, April 28, 1941-), an American chemist, former full professor of chemistry at the MIT Department, won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It is well known for its research on asymmetric synthesis, and the more famous chemical reactions include Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation and asymmetric bihydroxylation reactions. In recent years, the new concept of synthesis introduced by it has become one of the most useful and attractive synthesis concepts in many fields of drug development and molecular biology. Professor Sharples was born in Philadelphia, USA in 1941. He received a doctorate degree from Stanford University in 1968. He is now a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Institute in the United States.
