PersonK. Barry Sharpless
Barry Sharpless
American chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in both 2001 and 2022. He pioneered asymmetric epoxidation reactions and was a pioneer of click chemistry.
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Oct 12
The 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to William Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, and Barry Sharpless in recognition of their pioneering contributions to chiral catalytic hydrogenation and chiral catalytic oxidation reactions.
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