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K. Barry Sharpless, 1959 Alumnus of Friends' Central School, Wins Second Nobel Prize

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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

WYNNEWOOD, Pa., Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Only five scientists in history have won a Nobel prize twice, and among those five is K. Barry Sharpless, a Class of 1959 alumnus of Friends' Central School in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.

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  • WYNNEWOOD, Pa., Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Only five scientists in history have won a Nobel prize twice, and among those five is K. Barry Sharpless, a Class of 1959 alumnus of Friends' Central School in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
  • On October 5, the 2022 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to scientists K. Barry Sharpless, Carolyn Bertozzi, at Stanford University, and Morten Meldal, at the University of Copenhagen.
  • The three were recognized for devising a method to "click" molecules together that has been described as working like "molecular Lego."
  • K. Barry Sharpless won his first Nobel prize in chemistry in 2001 for his work on catalyzed oxidation reactions, another type of chemical reaction used to produce drugs.