Two scientists with MIT connections have been awarded a share of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In an announcement made yesterday in Stockholm, Sweden, Carolyn R. Bertozzi of Stanford University, Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen, and K. Barry Sharpless of the Scripps Research Institute were awarded the prize “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.” Both Bertozzi and Sharpless share roots at MIT and the greater Boston area. Sharpless, who became just the 5th person to ever win a second Nobel Prize, began his independent…
