The Royal Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday that three researchers won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
The award and its $900,000 prize went equally to Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless of the United States and Morten Meldal of Denmark.
For Sharpless, it is his second Nobel Prize in Chemistry after being awarded the honor in 2001.
The academy said Meldal and Sharpless separately presented a chemical reaction that is now widely used to develop drugs and materials and to map DNA.
Bertozzi further developed the field with reactions that work inside living things, the academy said, with applications that include exploring cells and tracking biological processes.
The Nobel Prizes in Medicine and Physics were awarded earlier this week, with the Literature Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize to be announced Thursday and Friday.
Some information for this report came from the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.
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Source: sn.dk