Three Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Putting Molecules Together to Design Drugs | world news

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists who developed a method of “sticking molecules together” to create new drugs.

“Click chemistry” or bioorthogonal reactions can be used to create new anticancer drugs and map DNA.

It is the work of US scientists Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal of Denmark.

Mr. Sharpless of Scripps Research in California won the same award in 2001 and is only the fifth person to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.

Ms. Bertozzi works at Stanford University in California, while Mr. Meldal works at the University of Copenhagen.

Last year, the chemistry prize went to Benjamin List and David WC MacMillan for inventing a more environmentally friendly way to build molecules.

The panel said it had “already benefited humanity greatly.”

The French scientist Alain Aspect, the Austrian Anton Zeilinger and the American John F. Clauser received the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday.

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They discovered that even after they’re separated, tiny particles can still have a connection — known as quantum entanglement, which can be used in computing and encryption.

The chemistry prize was announced on Wednesday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the literature prize on Thursday and the peace prize on Monday.