chemistry

Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless, and Danish scientist Morten Meldal were given the Nobel Prize for developing a way of “snapping molecules together." that can be used to design better medicines.

French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a method of genome editing known as CRISPR.

An American woman, Frances H. Arnold, has won half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry, and George Smith of the U.S. and Sir Gregory Winter of the U.K. will share the other half.