Danish chemist and Nobel laureate Morten P. Meldal has said that children should be taught Chemistry like reading and writing from Grade 1.
He was addressing students and researchers at an event organised at Malabar Christian College in Kozhikode on February 12 (Monday). Mr. Meldal, a professor at the University of Copenhagen, shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with K. Barry Sharpless and Carolyn Bertozzi “for the development of click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry.”
“... Chemistry is not all, but it is everything. Because the food that we eat, the chair that we are sitting on, the air that we breathe, when we feel pain, when we are in love, when we are hungry, when we fall asleep, that is all Chemistry. It is time we start teaching chemistry the same way we teach reading, maths, writing from first grade,” he said.
