The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be jointly awarded by American chemist Bertosi, Danish chemist Mel Dahl, and American chemist Sharpless.

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[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] The winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Chemistry) was announced today (5th), by American chemists Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Barry Sharpless and Danish chemists Morten Meldal won the award.

In addition to the medals and certificates, the winners will also receive a bonus of SEK 10 million (approximately NT$28.7 million).

This time, Weng Qihui, who is regarded as the favorite candidate to win the award, will become the bead of the "Taiwan Light".

Among the three laureates, Sharpless won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 and won the Nobel Prize again after 21 years. After the British biochemist Frederick Sanger, he was the first in Nobel history. Second winner of two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.

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The Nobel official stated that American chemists Sharpless and Meldal led chemistry into the era of "Functionalism" and laid the foundation for "Click Chemistry"; another American chemist Bertosi Raised click chemistry to a new level and used it to draw cell maps. The "Bioorthogonal Chemistry" reaction discovered in his research has made a significant contribution to the targeted treatment of cancer, and the three shared the honor.

It is worth mentioning that this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry also nominated Weng Qihui, former president of the Academia Sinica and now an academician of the Genome Research Center of the Academia Sinica.

He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2014, which is regarded as the "outpost of the Nobel Prize", for his significant contributions to sugar research; in 2015, he was awarded the Robert Robinson Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry. ); won the Welch Award in Chemistry in 2021, and was once regarded by the outside world as a popular candidate for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Last year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly by German chemist Benjamin List and American chemist David WC MacMillan for their contributions to the development of "asymmetric organocatalysis".

The next-generation catalysts they discovered are greener and cheaper to produce, and are crucial for making new drugs, plastics, perfumes and fragrances.

The Nobel Prize was established in the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of Swedish explosives. It has been awarded since 1901, and this year marks its 121st anniversary.

The 2022 Nobel Prize will be announced for a week from the 3rd. Following the Biomedical Award, the Physics Award, and the Chemistry Award, the Literature Award, the Peace Prize on the 7th, and the Economics Award on the 10th will be awarded tomorrow (6th).