The two American researchers Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless and their Danish colleague Morten Meldal will receive this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The three are known for developing something called “click chemistry,” an “ingenious tool for building molecules.” This is Sharpless’s second Nobel Prize, who received the award in 2001.
Last year the prize went to the German chemist Benjamin List and his British colleague David MacMillan.
They were honored for developing an “ingenious” tool for building molecules called “asymmetric organocatalysis.”
The prize is endowed with ten million Swedish crowns (about 920,000 euros). The prize is awarded every year on December 10, the anniversary of the death of founder Alfred Nobel.
Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Austria
The Nobel Prize in Physics was announced on Tuesday. Austrian quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger and his two colleagues Alain Aspect (France) and John Clauser (USA) will be honored in 2022. The physicist, born on May 20, 1945 in Ried im Innkreis (Upper Austria), is considered a pioneer in the transfer of quantum information between photons. His work on it earned him the nickname “Mr. Ray”.
Source: Krone
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