The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022

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October 08, 2022

Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2022/summary/

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