Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 (2nd Nobel for Barry Sharpless)

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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2022/press-release/

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 to

Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Stanford University, CA, USA

Morten Meldal
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

K. Barry Sharpless
Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA

“for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”

 

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Carolyn Bertozzi, Barry Sharpless, and Morten Meldal have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.” Notably, this is Sharpless’s second Nobel; he won in 2001 for his eponymous asymmetric epoxidation.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/
Congratulations to all the winners on a well-deserved prize.

 

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Sharpless is only the fourth two-time Nobelist, and the first to get it twice in Chemistry/

Carolyn Bertozzi is the daughter of physicist William Bertozzi.

 

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Sharpless is only the fourth two-time Nobelist, and the first to get it twice in Chemistry/

Carolyn Bertozzi is the daughter of physicist William Bertozzi.

Frederick Sanger won the Chemistry prize twice (1958, 1980):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Sanger

 

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You're right. Fifth and second, then.