Karl Barry Sharpless - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2001; Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2022
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Karl Barry Sharpless

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2001
for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions
Together with: Ryōji Noyori, William Standish Knowles
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2022
for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry
Together with: Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten P. Meldal
Citizenship
United StatesUnited States
Languages
English
date of birth
4/28/1941
place of birth
Philadelphia
Age
85 years

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occupation
  • university teacher
  • chemist
field of work
  • chemistry
educated at
  • Harvard University
  • Stanford University
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • academic major: organic chemistry
    • start time: 1963
    • end time: 1968
  • Dartmouth College
    • academic degree: bachelor's degree
    • academic major: chemistry
    • start time: 1959
    • end time: 1963
  • Dartmouth College
    • academic degree: Bachelor of Arts
    • end time: 1963
  • Friends' Central School
    • academic degree: high school diploma
    • end time: 1959
employer
  • Stanford University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Scripps Research
    • start time: 1990
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1985
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
    • start time: 1985
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1984
  • European Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2003
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