News about Frederick Sanger

Three scientists have been rewarded this year for their 'click' chemistry, which involves chopping smaller molecules together to produce larger and more complex ones. Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless all worked together to make the process useful to living organisms' in what they call 'bioorthogonal chemistry.' The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has been given the award, worth ten million Swedish crowns (£804,465) (£804,072 USD). Bertozzi and Sharpless are both from the United States and are affiliated with Stanford University and Scripps Research, respectively, while Danish scientist Meldal works at the University of Copenhagen. The winners of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, were announced this morning by Hans Ellegren, deputy general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. "This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Johan qvist, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said, "not overcomplicating problems is the main goal, rather than working with what is straightforward and straightforward.' Functional molecules can be produced even if you go along for a straightforward route.'