A tool kit for snapping together molecules like Lego building blocks has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Chemists Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University, Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen and Barry Sharpless of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., will evenly split the prize for developing click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced October 5 in a news conference in Stockholm. These tools allow scientists to easily construct complex molecules in the lab and inside living organisms.
Chemist Carolyn Bertozzi (left) developed bioorthogonal chemistry, while chemists Morten Meldal (middle) and Barry Sharpless (right) pioneered click chemistry.L.A. Cicero; Scripps Research;
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