Three Scientists Conferred With Chemistry Nobel Prize For ‘Ingenious’ Molecule-Building Tool

Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless.

Especially,  Barry Sharpless is the 5th person to win two Nobel prizes.

“Barry Sharpless laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry – click chemistry – in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently,” the Nobel prize committee said making the announcement.

Barry Sharpless started his work on click chemistry when in the year 2000, he coined the concept of click chemistry. Click chemistry refers to a form of simple and reliable chemistry where reactions occur quickly while unwanted by-products are avoided.

“This year’s Prize in chemistry deals with not overcomplicating matters, instead working with what is easy and simple. Functional molecules can be built even by taking a straightforward route,” the committee further said.