“I’m not entirely sure that’s true, but as time goes by it’s getting more and more realistic,” said Carolyn Bertage, 56, a professor at Stanford University, who was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. year.
In an interview with the Associated Press on the same day, Professor Bertoji said: “I was so shocked that I couldn’t breathe.”
As soon as he heard about the award, he called his father and said, “I have something to tell you, please turn down the TV.”
His father, a retired physicist, was still watching TV awake at the time, he said.
After confirming that there hadn’t been an accident, his father said, “You got an award, didn’t you?”
One of the three sisters said, “I was lucky to have parents who were supportive, almost evangelical, and got their daughters involved in science.”
Previously, the Nobel Committee selected three Nobel Prize winners in chemistry: Bertoji, Morten Meldahl and K. Barry Sharpless, who developed a synthesis technology that quickly and efficiently combines molecular units.
Professor Bertoji has developed a “bioorthogonal reaction” that can cause a clicking reaction without affecting the normal metabolism of cells in a living organism, “taking click chemistry to a new level,” the Nobel Committee said.
“It’s doing chemistry inside the patient to make sure the drug is moving in the right place and away from the wrong place,” Bertoge said.
/ yunhap news
