Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2022 awarded for “Click” chemistry: The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi (American), Morton Meldal (Danish) and Barry Sharpless (American).
October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz
Reason: For their work on snipping molecules together which is known as click chemistry.
Click chemistry: It is about linking together molecules like those in living cells.
Use: To explore cells and track biological processes; can be applied in cancer treatment drugs.
Before this, Barry Sharples has won Nobel in 2001 for chemistry.
