Along with Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen, they have been honored for “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

Zeilinger is one of three winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work on quantum entangled states.

Syukuro Manabe, a climatologist and elected Fellow of AAAS, was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics along with fellow climate researcher Klaus Hasselmann and theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi.

Researchers have used CRISPR to produce new cancer therapies, crops that are resistant to climate change and more.

Work by Charles Rice and colleagues paved the way for the rapid development of antiviral drugs that can now cure approximately 95% of Hepatitis C patients.

Nobel Prize in Physics highlights groundbreaking inventions – optical tweezers and ultra-short high-intensity laser pulses – that have advanced laser physics.