China News Service, October 5. According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, on the afternoon of October 5, Beijing time, the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless.
Image source: Screenshot of the official website of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was first awarded in 1901. As of 2021, there have been 113 awards and 188 winners.
The official Nobel Prize website said: "For Alfred Nobel's own work, chemistry is the most important science. The development of his inventions and the industrial processes he employs are based on knowledge of chemistry. Chemistry is the second award field mentioned by Nobel in his will."