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Beijing time on the afternoon of October 5, Beijing time, the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry list was officially announced. Dr. Carolyn R. Bertozzi (left), Dr. Morten Meldal (middle), and Dr. K. Barry Sharpless (right) won this championship together for their outstanding contributions in the field of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.
Image source: Nobel Prize Official Website
Nobel Prize in Chemistry is one of the five Nobel Prize , aiming to reward scientists who have made important discoveries or inventions in the field of chemistry. Since its first award in 1901, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 114 times, with more than 180 winners in . The official website of the Nobel Prize shows that as of 2021, 25 chemistry awards were won by two winners; a total of 7 female scientists won the chemistry award; Dr. Frederick Sanger won the chemistry award twice, in 1958 and 1980 respectively; Dr. Frédéric Joliot is the youngest Nobel Prize winner in history, and he was only 35 years old when he won the award in 1935; in addition, Dr. John B. Goodenough, who won the award at the age of 97, is the oldest Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.
Below are the research fields of Nobel Prize winners and award-winning Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the past 10 years.
2021 : Benjamin Listml3, Professor David MacMillan
Award field: Asymmetric Organocatalysis
2020 : Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier, Professor Jennifer Doudna
Award field: Gene editing technology
2019 : John Professor Goodenough, Professor Stanley Whittingham, Dr. Akira Yoshino,
Award-winning fields: lithium battery
2018 : Professor Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter Jazz
award-winning fields: Directed evolution of enzymes, polypeptide and antibodies phage display technology
Image source: Nobel Prize official website
2017 : Professor Jacques Dubochet, Professor Joachim Frank, Richard Professor Henderson
award field: cryo-electron microscope
2016 : Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Bernard L. Feringah
award field: Design and synthesis of molecular machines
2015 : Professor Lindahl, Professor Paul Modrich , Aziz Sancar
Award field: Research on the mechanism of DNA repair
2014 : Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, Professor William E. Moerner
Award field: Super Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy
2013 : Professor Martin Karplus, Michael Professor Levitt and Professor Arieh Warshel
Award-winning field: Created a multi-scale model for complex chemical systems
Reference: [1]The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022. Retrieved Oct 05, 2022, from https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes-in-chemistry/
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