Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Bertozzi, Meldal and Sharpless for the development of techniques that will allow the construction of new molecules and drugs

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year went to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless, "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry".

With this award, Barry Sharpless has just become the fifth person to win two Nobel Prizes, since he

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Sharpless thus follows in the footsteps of John Bardeen, Marie Skodowska Curie, Linus Pauling and Frederick Sanger, who

by the Nobel Committee.

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Nobel Prize in Physics to the fathers of quantum technology that will change our future

• Writing: ÁNGEL DÍAZMadrid

Nobel Prize in Physics to the fathers of quantum technology that will change our future

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This is how the last Nobel Prize in Medicine can revolutionize sport: from chilli to football, the Tour or the marathon

• Writing: JAVIER SÁNCHEZ

This is how the last Nobel Prize in Medicine can revolutionize sport: from chilli to football, the Tour or the marathon

Chemistry is, like every year, the third Nobel Prize awarded in the course.

Last Monday, the Medicine and Physiology award, the first in the series, was awarded to the Swedish Svante Pääbo, for his discoveries on the genome of extinct hominin species and his contribution to understanding the evolution of humanity.

On Tuesday, the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded equal parts to Frenchman

, American

, and Austrian

, for their "cutting-edge experiments with

, in which two particles behave as one. "

unity even when they are separated".

Tomorrow, Thursday, will come the announcement of one of the most anticipated, the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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