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Morten P. Meldal

Scientist · born January 16, 1954

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Morten Peter Meldal 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.

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  1. ~68Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry2022

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