Oct 06,2022:Three scientists Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless have won the Nobel Prize 2022 in Chemistry “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”. The prize, which consists of a gold medal, a diploma, and a cash prize of $9,00,000 will be handed over to the winner on December 10, the date when Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize died.
The award was shared by two scientists last year – Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan– for developing a tool that offered an ingenious and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules.
The Nobel awards are being handed out starting October 3, when Svante Paabo won in Physiology or Medicine for his evolutionary discoveries followed by The prize in Physics which was shared between three physicists– Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger – for their work in quantum mechanics.
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Moving forward, the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on October 6, followed by the awards for Peace and Economics on October 7 and October 10, respectively.
