photo Karl Barry Sharpless

Karl Barry Sharpless

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2001
for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2022
for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
4/28/1941
place of birth
Philadelphia
Age
85 years
educated at
  • 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
field of work
  • chemistry
member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • National Academy of Sciences
occupation
  • chemist
  • university teacher
employer
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Stanford University
  • Scripps Research
    • start time: 1/1/1990
Read on Wikipedia