Morten P. Meldal
Morten Meldal | |
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Meldal in 2023 | |
| Born | Morten Peter Meldal 16 January 1954 Denmark |
| Education | Technical University of Denmark (BS, MS, PhD) |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2022) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Organic chemistry |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Reactions of Unsaturated Sugars with Hydrogen Halides (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Klaus Bock |
Morten Peter Meldal (born 16 January 1954) is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is best known for developing the CuAAC-click reaction, concurrently with but independent of Valery V. Fokin and K. Barry Sharpless.