Karl Barry Sharpless
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2001for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2022for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry
- Citizenship
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United States
- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 4/28/1941
- place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Age
- 85 years
- educated at
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- Dartmouth College
- academic degree: bachelor's degree
- academic major: chemistry
- end time: 1/1/1963
- start time: 1/1/1959
- Friends' Central School
- academic degree: high school diploma
- end time: 1/1/1959
- Stanford University
- academic major: organic chemistry
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- start time: 1/1/1963
- end time: 1/1/1968
- Dartmouth College
- academic degree: Bachelor of Arts
- end time: 1/1/1963
- Harvard University
- Dartmouth College
- field of work
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- chemistry
- member of
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- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- National Academy of Sciences
- occupation
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- chemist
- university teacher
- employer
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Stanford University
- Scripps Research
- start time: 1/1/1990