The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to researchers Carolyn R. Bertozza, Morten Meldahl and C. Barry Sharpless for “a brilliant tool for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

Barry Sharpless won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry also in 2001. Excluding organizations, so far only 4 people have succeeded, the first of whom was the famous French researcher Marie Curie.

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Past laureates of the 2022 Nobel Prize

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine to Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo for his discoveries about the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.

Thanks to his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo achieved something seemingly impossible: he sequenced the genome of a Neanderthal, an extinct relative of modern humans. He also made a sensational discovery of the previously unknown hominin Denisova.

Researchers Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their experiments with entangled photons, establishing violations of Bell’s inequalities and pioneering the science of quantum information.

Alain Aspect (France), John Clauser (USA) and Anton Zeilinger (Austria) conducted pioneering experiments using “entangled” quantum states in which two particles behave as a single entity even though they are separated. Their results paved the way for a new technology based on quantum information, explained the Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded on Wednesday, followed by the Literature and Peace Prizes, which will be announced on Thursday and Friday, respectively.

Last year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to researchers Benjamin List (Germany) and David McMillan (USA) for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.