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Two Americans and a Dane win Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Cheminstry Carolyn Bertozzi, Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal. © Niklas Elmehed, Nobel Prize Outreach

Three scientists were jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to explore cells, map DNA and design drugs that can target diseases such as cancer more precisely.

Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless, and Danish scientist Morten Meldal were cited for their work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions.

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