This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Caroline Bertozzi (USA), Morten Meldal (Denmark) and Barry Sharpless (USA). The award was presented to them "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry."
Information about the works of the laureates can be found in the press release of the Nobel Committee.
The term click chemistry was first introduced by B. Sharpless in 2001. This concept describes chemical reactions adapted for the rapid and reliable production of chemicals by connecting individual small elements together.
On October 3, the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was awarded to the Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo for his research on the genomes of extinct hominids and human evolution. On October 4, a group of three scientists received the Nobel Prize in Physics for research in the field of quantum mechanics.