The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Caroline Bertozzi, Morten Meldahl and Barry Sharpless for developing a method for connecting molecules.
Academy Secretary General Hans Illegren announced the award winners on Wednesday at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
The organizers of the award announced that this year’s winners have developed so-called click chemistry and orthogonal biological reactions that can be used to make cancer drugs, map DNA and create materials specifically designed for a specific purpose.
Caroline Bertozzi, Stanford University, California, Morten Milldahl, Denmark, University of Copenhagen, and Barry Sharpless, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA.
With this honor, Charbel won the Nobel Prize for the first time in 2001, becoming the fifth person to receive the Nobel Prize twice.
Last year, the prize was awarded to Benjamin List and David Macmillan for developing an ingenious and environmentally cleaner way to create molecules that the Nobel Committee says have “greatly benefited mankind.”
The week of Nobel Prize announcements began on Monday when Swedish scientist Svante Papau was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the secrets of Neanderthal DNA, which provides key insights into our immune system.
Origin: EU
Source: Arabic RT
