![]() And that's a bit of a superpower for a chemical reaction to have, because that means you can actually do these chemical reactions, and take two reagents, and react them to form a bonded product. ![]() "Biorthogonal chemistry is basically chemistry that does not interact with or interfere with anything in a biological setting. On the click chemistry and biorthogonal reactions for which Bertozzi and her colleagues won the Nobel Prize: And I'm so happy that he is still with us that he could enjoy this moment with me." And he was just so overjoyed, just bursting with pride. And so he understands the gravity of a Nobel Prize and what that means. And my dad is 91 years old, and he's a retired physics professor from MIT. And they told me, 'OK, well, you have 50 minutes until the live announcement.' And in that period of time, I took it upon myself to make a few phone calls just to my closest inner circle of confidants, which includes my my father. And I think they were somewhat bemused by it, because I'm not known as a speechless person. "I don't think I caught my breath the entire phone call. It took me a few minutes to recognize that this was not some strange dream or some hallucination, and that I really did have the chair of the Nobel Committee on the phone, with his colleagues behind him congratulating me on the Nobel Prize. And that's when the impossible suddenly seemed possible. And I was a little confused at first, until I looked at the number and realized it was an international number from Sweden. ![]() You know, I went to bed and I was sound asleep, and then the phone started buzzing. "I did know that this was the day for the chemistry Nobel Prize. On whether she had any suspicion she'd get a call from Stockholm early this morning: ![]() She spoke with WBUR's All Things Considered host Lisa Mullins. She's a professor at Stanford University. She graduated from high school there in 1984 and obtained her undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1988. Barry Sharpless, who's affiliated with Scripps Research in California.īertozzi grew up in Lexington. She'll share the prize with two other scientists in the field - Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen and K. Wednesday morning, the Nobel Committee announced that Carolyn Bertozzi will receive the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry. (Photo courtesy Stanford University)Ī graduate of Lexington High School and Harvard University has won a Nobel Prize. ![]()
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