The winners of the Nobel Prizes, in which the greatest achievements in the world of science are crowned every year, have been announced since the beginning of this week. While the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine and the Nobel Prize in Physics have been announced so far, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry have been announced today.
The Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless. The award will be shared between Sharpless and Meldal and Bertozzi.
The work of scientists that earned them the Nobel Prize in Chemistry:
According to the statement shared by the Nobel Committee, Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal brought chemistry to the age of ‘functionalism’ and laid the foundations of ‘click chemistry’. The field allows the coupling of selected substrates with specific biomolecules. The class of small molecule reactions that result from this process is called ‘click chemistry’.
Carolyn Bertozzi, who shared the award with the duo, succeeded in carrying the click chemistry to a new dimension in her work. The ‘bioorthogonal reactions’ developed by Bertozzi began to enable cancer treatments to be performed with higher accuracy.
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