
Karl Barry Sharpless
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Karl Barry Sharpless (born April 28, 1941) is an American stereochemist. He is a two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry, known for his work on stereoselective reactions and click chemistry. Sharpless was awarded half of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions", and one third of the 2022 prize, jointly with Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Morten P. Meldal, "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". Sharpless is the fifth person (i
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Barry Sharpless: Two-time chemistry Nobel winner joins the ranks of Marie Curie, Linus Pauling
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K. Barry Sharpless and team named winners of 2021 Royal Society of Chemistry prize for 3-D ‘click chemistry’