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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
Princeton, Oct 6 (EFE/EPA).- Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their "development of asymmetric organocatalysis,” the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced on Wednesday.Their work has had a “great impact on pharmaceutical research and has made chemistry greener,” it added.The two scientists have received the prestigious prize for developing a third catalyst in 2000 after researchers believed there were only two types of catalysts. (Camera: JUSTIN LANE). SHOT LIST: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DAVID MACMILLAN SPEAKS DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE HELD AFTER HE WAS AWARDED THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY ALONG WITH GERMAN CHEMIST BENJAMIN LIST, AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY IN PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, US.