Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2022 awarded for “Click” chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2022 awarded for “Click” chemistry: The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi (American), Morton Meldal (Danish) and Barry Sharpless (American).

October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz

Reason: For their work on snipping molecules together which is known as click chemistry.

Click chemistry: It is about linking together molecules like those in living cells.

Use: To explore cells and track biological processes; can be applied in cancer treatment drugs.

Before this, Barry Sharples has won Nobel in 2001 for chemistry.