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Karl Barry Sharpless

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Karl Barry Sharpless (born April 28, 1941) is an American stereochemist. He is a two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry, known for his work on stereoselective reactions and click chemistry. Sharpless was awarded half of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions", and one third of the 2022 prize, jointly with Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Morten P. Meldal, "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". Sharpless is the fifth person (in addition to two organizations) to have twice been awarded a Nobel prize, along with Marie Curie, John Bardeen, Linus Pauling and Frederick Sanger, and the third to have been awarded two prizes in the same discipline (after Bardeen and Sanger). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Barry Sharpless is the 207th most popular chemist (down from 157th in 2019), the 1,129th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,003rd in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Karl Barry Sharpless ranks 207 out of 602. Before him are Wallace Carothers, Donald J. Cram, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Robert H. Grubbs, Robert F. Furchgott, and Georg Ernst Stahl. After him are Alan MacDiarmid, James Dewar, Roald Hoffmann, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Nikolay Semyonov, and Paul Lauterbur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Karl Barry Sharpless ranks 68. Before him are Paul Anka, Nona Gaprindashvili, Ritchie Valens, Jordi Savall, Michael Howard, and Jürgen Prochnow. After him are Ivica Osim, Pete Best, Jacques Perrin, Igor Smirnov, Martin Evans, and Gheorghe Zamfir.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Karl Barry Sharpless ranks 1,129 out of 20,380. Before him are Kenneth Arrow (1921), Anne Sullivan (1866), Charley Patton (1891), David Fincher (1962), Mahershala Ali (1974), and George H. Hitchings (1905). After him are Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), L. Frank Baum (1856), Lewis Strauss (1896), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), William D. Leahy (1875), and Frank B. Kellogg (1856).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Karl Barry Sharpless ranks 52. Before him are Paul L. Modrich (1946), Arthur Kornberg (1918), Wallace Carothers (1896), Donald J. Cram (1919), Robert H. Grubbs (1942), and Robert F. Furchgott (1916). After him are Paul Lauterbur (1929), Stanley Miller (1930), James B. Conant (1893), Walter Gilbert (1932), Kary Mullis (1944), and Richard Smalley (1943).

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