China News Service, October 5. According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, one of the 2022 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, 81-year-old K. Barry Sharpless (K. Barry Sharpless) has become the fifth person to win the Nobel twice. award person.
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In 2001, Sharpless won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with William Knowles and Ryoji Noyori for their achievements in the field of "chiral catalytic oxidation reaction".
On the afternoon of October 5, 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Karl • K. Barry Sharpless for their contributions to "click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry".