Three candidates have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2022.10.05 06:01
Three candidates have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
By Ray Johnson
Budrigannews.com -“For the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry,” Barry Sharpless, Carolyn Bertozzi, and Morten Meldal, three scientists, were awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday.
The prize, which is worth 10 million Swedish crowns (915,072), was given out by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is the third prize to be announced over six consecutive weekdays. It comes after the prizes for medicine and physics that were announced earlier this week.
Marie Curie, who shared the physics prize with her husband and whose eldest daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, won the chemistry award just over two decades after her mother, is one of the well-known scientific figures to have won the award in the past.
Benjamin List, a German, and David MacMillan, a Scottish native, were awarded the chemistry prize in 2021 for their contributions to the development of novel tools for the construction of molecules, which have aided in the creation of novel drugs and plastics.
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish dynamite inventor, businessman, and chemist, established the prizes for achievements in science, literature, and peace in his will, which have been presented annually since 1901. Later, economics were added.
Despite the fact that much of the pageantry and events were put on hold or temporarily moved online, the prizes have been awarded annually with a few interruptions, primarily for the world wars. There has been no break for the COVID-19 pandemic.
