The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless on Wednesday at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm for click and bioorthogonal chemistry.
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In 2021, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to scientists Benjamin List and David WC MacMillan for discovering an environmentally cleaner way to build molecules, while in 2020 the prize was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for discovering the gene technology tool CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. .
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The Nobel Prize announcements began on Monday with Swedish scientist Svante Paabo receiving the medicine prize for his work on Neanderthal DNA.
Read more: Nobel laureate Svante Paabo’s discoveries show what makes us human: explained
Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger jointly won the physics prize on Tuesday for their work in quantum physics.
Read more: Meet the 3 scientists awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
The prizes will continue with literature on Thursday, the peace prize on Friday and the economics prize on Monday. The Nobel Prizes carry a cash prize of 10 million Swedish kroner (about $900,000) and will be awarded on December 10.
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