The Nobel price to Carolyn Bertozzi and the click-chemistry

Sometimes simple answers are the best, and functional chemistry works wonders.

Carolyn Bertozzi is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 with Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal because they brought chemistry into the era of functionalism, laid the foundations of click chemistry and opened applications to bioorthogonal reactions used inside living organisms.
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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2022/popular-information/

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