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| Three scientists win Nobel for 'click' chemistry | Three scientists win Nobel for 'click' chemistry |
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| The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has gone to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morton Meldal, and Barry Sharpless for their work on snipping molecules together, known as click chemistry. | The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has gone to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morton Meldal, and Barry Sharpless for their work on snipping molecules together, known as click chemistry. |
| The winners will share prize money of 10 million Swedish krona (£800,000). | The winners will share prize money of 10 million Swedish krona (£800,000). |
| Their work is used to explore cells and track biological processes, and can be applied in cancer treatment drugs. | |
| "Click" chemistry is about linking together molecules like those in living cells. | |
| The Nobel committee praised their work for making chemistry functional and said they had an enormous impact on science. | |
| "This year's prize deals with not overcomplicating matters, instead working with what is easy and simple," says Johan Åqvist, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. | |
| Barry Sharpless has now won the Nobel Prize twice. The first time was in 2001 for chiral catalysts. | |
| Carolyn Bertozzi, who pioneered the work on bioorthogonal chemistry, is the eighth woman to win the Chemistry Nobel. | |
| Last year's award also went to two scientists who developed tools for building molecules. | |
| On Monday, the committee gave the Physiology or Medicine prize to Svante Paabo for work on human evolution. | On Monday, the committee gave the Physiology or Medicine prize to Svante Paabo for work on human evolution. |
| Tuesday's Nobel Prize in Physics rewarded research into quantum mechanics - the science that describes nature at the smallest scales. | |
| Previous winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Previous winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| 2021 - Benjamin List and David MacMillan won the prize for their work on building molecules that are mirror images of one another. | 2021 - Benjamin List and David MacMillan won the prize for their work on building molecules that are mirror images of one another. |
| 2020 - Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna received the award for developing the tools to edit DNA. | 2020 - Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna received the award for developing the tools to edit DNA. |
| 2019 - John B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino share the prize for their work on lithium-ion batteries. | 2019 - John B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino share the prize for their work on lithium-ion batteries. |
| 2018 - Discoveries about enzymes earned Frances Arnold, George P Smith and Gregory Winter the prize | 2018 - Discoveries about enzymes earned Frances Arnold, George P Smith and Gregory Winter the prize |
| 2017 - Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson were awarded the prize for improving images of biological molecules | 2017 - Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson were awarded the prize for improving images of biological molecules |
| 2016 - Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa shared the prize for the making machines on a molecular scale. | 2016 - Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa shared the prize for the making machines on a molecular scale. |
| 2015 - Discoveries in DNA repair earned Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar the award. | 2015 - Discoveries in DNA repair earned Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar the award. |