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Nobel prize awarded to US and Danish scientists for 'simplifying' chemistry

And the winners are . . . © Nobel

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to a trio of chemists from the US and Denmark who have laid the foundation for a more functional form of the science.

Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless, together with Denmark's Morten Meldal, were honoured "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry," according to the jury.

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