(5 Oct 2022)
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Copenhagen - 5 October 2022
1. Nobel Prize winner Morten Meldal being cheered and receiving flowers
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Morten Meldal, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 2022:
"No, I did not expect it at all. It was actually a complete surprise. I was sitting in my office working with teaching material, when I was called by the Nobel Committee with the message that I would share the prize this year with Caroline Bertozzi and Barry Sharpness. And so it happens that they are good friends of mine. So that's very nice."
3. Meldal being cheered, speech and flowers at Copenhagen University
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Morten Meldal, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 2022:
"So the feeling was immediately I thought, maybe, maybe it's not real. Maybe it's something, you know. But it was real. I realized very soon and I talked with the three persons from the committee and they explained to me that I had got the prize and I was awarded the prize together with Carolyn and Barry. And then they went on to explain me all the proceedings to me. And as this happened, I was starting to really realize that this is something quite big that is happening."
5. Crowds with Danish flags
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Morten Meldal, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 2022:
"But now I'd be very, very busy because I both have my research and teaching program. But I also have to be an ambassador for this award and for the Copenhagen University, which is, of course, very much an opportunity for us at the university, when you get this kind of award to argue for our young people to take chemistry as a discipline at the university. I think it's very important that we get more young people to choose chemistry, which is a little bit difficult at the moment because chemistry is the solution to many of our challenges."
7. Meldal standing with flowers
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Morten Meldal, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 2022:
"We make building blocks that we can for the first time, complex building blocks that we for the first time, can link together very selectively to form new functional molecules. And this chemistry is really, really selective over all other kinds of chemistries. So, you can even perform it inside a cell in the presence of all the biochemistry that goes on in there. So, this is the core of the chemistry, is the selectivity and the quantitativeness of this reaction."
9. Meldal receiving applause
10. Door opening
STORYLINE:
Morten Meldal on Wednesday spoke of his surprise when he received a call from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences telling him he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Meldal won the award jointly with American scientists Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless, whom he described as "good friends".
The trio were cited for their work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions.
Meldal said he received the call from the Nobel panel about half an hour before the public announcement.
He expressed his hope that the award will help "to argue for our young people to take chemistry as a discipline", adding that "chemistry is the solution to many of our challenges."
Sharpless, 81, who previously won a Nobel Prize in 2001 and is now the fifth person to receive the award twice, first proposed the idea of connecting molecules using chemical "buckles" around the turn of the millennium, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Bertozzi, 55, who is based at Stanford University "took click chemistry to a new level," the Nobel panel said, by finding a way to make the process work inside living organisms without disrupting them.
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