Three ‘click chemistry’ scientists share Nobel prize

Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and double winner Barry Sharpless devised way to click molecules together

Three scientists who fuelled a revolution in chemistry by devising a way to click" molecules together like Lego bricks, even inside living organisms, have been awarded the 2022 Nobel prize in chemistry.

Carolyn Bertozzi, at Stanford University, Morten Meldal, at the University of Copenhagen, and K Barry Sharpless, from Scripps Research in California, were honoured for finding and exploiting elegant and efficient chemical reactions to create complex molecules for the pharmaceutical industry, mapping DNA and making designer materials.