Science Awards Week ends today.
After medicine and physics, which saw a Frenchman, Alain Aspect, awarded among the three winners, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded to the Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless, and to the Dane Morten Meldal this Wednesday in Stockholm.
It rewards their work on “bioorthogonal chemistry” and “click chemistry”.
The American Carolyn Bertozzi, pioneer of "bioorthogonal chemistry" and professor at Stanford University, regularly cited in recent years, was one of the favorites.
A masculine vintage
After a very masculine 2021 vintage (12 men and one woman, none for the scientific prizes), the year 2022 continued on this trend, with the Nobels of Swede Svante Päabo in medicine and Alain Aspect (France), John Clauser (USA) and Anton Zeilinger (Austria) in physics.
Chemistry is therefore an exception, with one woman out of the three winners.
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Last year, it was the German Benjamin List and the Briton David Macmillan who received this prestigious prize, for having invented a new type of catalyst making it possible to manufacture new molecules at a lower cost and in a cleaner way.
The week will end with the Nobel Prize for Literature and then the Peace Prize, before the economy next Monday.