In an announcement made yesterday in Stockholm, Sweden, Carolyn R. Bertozzi of Stanford University, Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen, and K. Barry Sharpless of the Scripps Research Institute were awarded the prize "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry." Both Bertozzi and Sharpless share roots at MIT and the greater Boston area. Sharpless, who became just the 5th person to ever win a second Nobel Prize, began his independent career at MIT, and was a member of the Department of Chemistry faculty from 1970 to 1977. After moving to his doctoral alma mater, Stanford University, for three years, he returned to the MIT faculty from 1980 to 1990 before trekking west again, this time to Scripps, where he has remained the W.M. Keck Professor of Chemistry ever since. Krishna Komanduri '87, a former undergraduate student of Sharpless' at MIT who is now physician-in-chief at the University of California at San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive...
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