Carolyn Bertozzi ‘took click chemistry to a new level,’ the panel said.
STOCKHOLM — Three scientists were jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to design better medicines.
Sharpless, 81, who previously won a Nobel Prize in 2001 and is now the fifth person to receive the award twice, first proposed the idea for connecting molecules using chemical “buckles” around the turn of the millennium, said Aqvist. Bertozzi, 55, who is based at Stanford University in California, “took click chemistry to a new level,” the Nobel panel said.
Speaking by phone at a news conference following the announcement, Bertozzi said she was “absolutely stunned” to receive the prize.Meldal said he received a call from the Nobel panel about half an hour before the public announcement. Last year the prize was awarded to scientists Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan for finding an ingenious and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that the Nobel panel said is “already benefiting humankind greatly.”
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