Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) was a Swedish with vast interests ranging from science, inventions, entrepreneurship, literature, and peace work. He was said to
K. Barry Sharpless, (born April 28, 1941, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American scientist who was cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2001 and 2022. He shared the 2001 prize with William S. Knowles and Noyori Ryōji for developing the first chiral catalysts. With Morten P. Meldal and Carolyn R. Bertozzi he was awarded the 2022 prize for contributions to click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry. Sharpless was just the fifth person to receive two Nobel Prizes. Sharpless received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1968. After postdoctoral work, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1970. In 1990
SAN DIEGO — K. Barry Sharpless of La Jolla, Calif.’s Scripps Research on Wednesday won a second Nobel Prize in chemistry, this time for helping create a swift, efficient method