Professor Carolyn R Bertozzi from Stanford University, Professor Morten Meldal from the University of Copenhagen, and Professor K Barry Sharpless from Scripps Research, have received the coveted Nobel Prize "for the development of click Chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”.
The three will share the 10 million Swedish krona (£800,000) award.
The work reportedly "transformed" how chemistry can be done, making it simpler and more effective, by allowing molecules to link together, like Lego pieces. Moreover, their work can also ensure that many reactions can be done with minimum impact on the environment.
This would be the second Nobel Prize awarded to Sharpless, who received this award for the first time in 2001 for chiral catalysts. Bertozzi, who pioneered bioorthogonal chemistry that links living cells, is the eighth woman to win the Chemistry Nobel.
"I'm absolutely stunned. I can hardly breathe," she said.
Morten Meldal...