2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners: Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless
Beijing time on the afternoon of October 5, Beijing time, in the capital of Sweden , the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, , the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, , to American chemist Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Danish chemist Morten Meldal and American chemist K. Barry Sharpless) in recognition of their contributions to click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry research.
Among them, Carl Barry Sharples won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the second time.
21 years ago, due to its pioneering contribution in the field of asymmetric catalytic oxidation, Carl Barry Sharples shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with American scientist William Knowles and Japanese scientist Ryoji Nori (he shared half of the prize, and the other two shared the prize of the other half).
2022 Nobel Prize each prize is 10 million Swedish kroner.
Carolyn R. Bertozzi was born in the United States in 1966 and is currently a professor at Stanford University in the United States.
Morten Meldal was born in Denmark in 1954 and is currently a professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Karry Sharpless, born in Pennsylvania, USA in 1941, is currently a lecturer at the Scripps Institute in the United States.
Previously, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 113 times. During the period, it was not issued for 8 years, namely 1916, 1917, 1919, 1924, 1933, 1940, 1941 and 1942.
Since 1901-2021, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to 188 winners, of which Frederick Sanger is the only one to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 and 1980 respectively. Therefore, from 1901 to 2021, a total of 187 people won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 7 of which were women.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry won the past five years
2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to German scientist Benjamin Listml4 (Benjamin Listml4) and American scientist David MacMillan (David MacMillan) for their contributions to the development of asymmetric organic catalysis.
2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their contributions “by developing genome editing methods.”
2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to John Goodinough (John B. Goodinough), M. Stanley Whittingham and Yoshino (Akira Yoshino) for their contributions in the field of lithium-ion battery .
2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to American scientists Frances H. Arnold, American scientists George P. Smith and British scientists George Paul Winter in recognition of their contributions in the fields of "directed evolution of enzymes" and " polypeptide and antibodies to phage display technology ".
2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for their development of cryoelectron microscopy technology.
