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 will be awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless . Barry Sharpless) for their "developments in click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry".
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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."