Chemistry laureate Barry Sharpless is the fifth individual to win two Nobel prizes | World News

With the announcement of Nobel prize in chemistry on Wednesday, Barry Sharpless grew to become the fifth particular person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes.

Barry Sharpless follows within the footsteps of Nobel prize laureates John Bardeen, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Linus Pauling and Frederick Sanger. Barry Sharpless was awarded the chemistry prize in 2001 as effectively.

"Barry Sharpless laid the inspiration for a practical type of chemistry – click on chemistry – during which molecular constructing blocks snap collectively shortly and effectively," the Nobel prize committee stated making the announcement.

Barry Sharpless began his work on click on chemistry when within the 12 months 2000, he coined the idea of click on chemistry. Click on chemistry refers to a type of easy and dependable chemistry the place reactions happen shortly whereas undesirable by-products are averted.

“This 12 months’s Prize in chemistry offers with not overcomplicating issues, as an alternative working with what is straightforward and easy. Purposeful molecules might be constructed even by taking an easy route,” the committee additional stated.