[Breaking] Nobel Chemistry Prize Awarded to Bertozzi, Meldal, and Sharpless... "Great Benefit to Humanity"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Song Seung-seop] This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three chemists who contributed to the research on 'bioorthogonal click chemistry.'

On the 5th (local time), the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences selected three recipients for the Chemistry Prize: Professor Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University, Professor Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen, and researcher Barry Sharpless of the Scripps Research Institute. The Nobel Committee praised their research for aiding in exploring cells and tracking biological processes, stating that it "brings the greatest benefit to humanity." Currently, chemists are working on improving cancer treatments used in clinical trials based on this research.

Meanwhile, the Nobel Committee plans to announce the winners of the Literature Prize on the 6th, the Peace Prize on the 7th, and the Economics Prize on the 10th, respectively.

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