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US-based Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov are named by the Swedish Academy of Sciences as the winners of the Nobel Chemistry Prize. IMAGES
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
One of the Nobel Physics Prize's joint winners, Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger says "I am still, kind of shocked" after the prize is announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science during a press conference in Stockholm. Zeilinger won the prize alongside France's Alain Aspect and the US's John F. Clauser for groundbreaking work in the field of quantum physics. SOUNDBITE
Benjamin List, one of the joint winners for the Nobel Chemistry Prize 2021, says he "thought somebody was making a joke" when he received the call from Sweden to inform him of his award. Germany's List won the prize jointly with David MacMillan of the United States for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction. SOUNDBITE
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