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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offers his "warmest congratulations" to doctor Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, who just won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work in developing the technology that led to mNRA vaccines against Covid 19. The World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic in March 2020 and the first mRNA vaccines were approved for use against the illness in December that year. Billions of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna doses have been injected around the world since then. SOUNDBITE
American chemist Carolyn R. Bertozzi reacts by phone to receiving the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which she is sharing with Denmark's Morten Meldal and fellow American Barry Sharpless. The trio are being honoured "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". SOUNDBITE
The Nobel Chemistry Prize is awarded to a trio of chemists for laying the foundation for a more functional form of chemistry. Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless, together with Denmark's Morten Meldal are honoured for "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". The award marks the second Nobel for 81-year-old Sharpless, who won the chemistry Nobel in 2001. SOUNDBITE
Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paaabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, wins the Nobel Medicine Prize, announces the Nobel committee. SOUNDBITE
"I'm still trying to find my feet underneath me," Princeton professor David MacMillan tells a press conference after winning the Nobel Chemistry Prize -- an "incredibly surreal" experience, he says -- for his work developing a new tool to scale up chemical reactions in an environmentally friendly way, known as "organocatalysis." SOUNDBITE
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