The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022
Awarded on: 2022-10-05
"for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry"
Affiliations:
- University of Copenhagen – Copenhagen, Denmark
Morten Meldal
Born: 1954-00-00 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Gender: male
Field: Danish chemist (born 1954)
Biography
Morten Peter Meldal is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is best known for developing the CuAAC-click reaction, concurrently with but independent of Valery V. Fokin and K. Barry Sharpless.