“I’m not entirely sure if this is true, but it’s becoming more and more realistic as time goes on,” said Carolyn Bertage, 56, a professor at Stanford University, who was co-winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In an interview with the Associated Press on the same day, Professor Bertoji said, “I was so shocked that I couldn’t breathe.”
As soon as he heard about the award, he called his father and said, “I have something to tell you, please turn down the TV.”
His father, a retired physicist, was still watching TV at the time in a waking style, he said.
After confirming that there was no accident, his father said, “You won the award, right?”
One of three sisters, she said, “I was lucky to have parents who were supportive, almost evangelical, and involved their daughters in science.”
Previously, the Nobel Committee selected three Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry: Bertoji, Morten Meldahl, and K. Barry Sharpless, who developed a synthesis technology that quickly and efficiently combines molecular units.
According to the Nobel Committee, Professor Bertoji has developed a ‘bioorthogonal reaction’ that can cause a click reaction without affecting the normal metabolism of cells in a living organism, “taking click chemistry to a new level”, the Nobel Committee said.
“It’s doing chemistry inside the patient to make sure that the drug is moving to the right place and away from the wrong place,” Bertoge said.
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