Carolyn Bertozzi, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2022

Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi (born October 10, 1966) is an American chemist. Bertozzi is known for her work on bioorthogonal chemistry, a term she coined. At Stanford University, she holds the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professorship in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Bertozzi is also an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and is the former Director of the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience research center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She received the MacArthur "genius" award at age 33. In 2010, she was the first woman to receive the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Prize faculty award. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005), the Institute of Medicine (2011), and the National Academy of Inventors (2013). In 2014, it was announced that Bertozzi would lead ACS Central Science, the American Chemical Society's first peer-reviewed open access journal that offers all content free to the public. As an open lesbian in academia and science, Bertozzi has been a role model for students and colleagues.

Awards and honors

• 1987 - Phi Beta Kappa.
• 1997 - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
• 1997 - Horace S. Isbell Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry.
• 1998 - Glaxo Wellcome Scholars' Award.
• 1998 - Beckman Young Investigators Award.
• 1999 - Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society.
• 1999 - Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
• 1999 - MacArthur Fellowship.
• 2000 - Presidential Early Career Awards for Science and Engineering.
• 2000 - Merck Academic Development Program Award.
• 2001 - UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.
• 2001 - ACS Award in Pure Chemistry.
• 2001 - Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
• 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• 2002 - Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award of the Protein Society.
• 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2004 - Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award of Iota Sigma Pi
• 2005 - Havinga Medal, Univ. Leiden
• 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
• 2005 - T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professorship in Chemistry.
• 2007 - Ernst Schering Prize
• 2007 - LGBTQ Scientist of the Year Award - from the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals
• 2008 - Li Ka Shing Women in Science Award.
• 2008 - Roy L. Whistler International Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry
• 2008 - Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• 2008 - Willard Gibbs Award
• 2009 - William H. Nichols Medal.
• 2009 - Harrison Howe Award.
• 2009 - Albert Hofmann Medal, Univ. Zurich.
• 2010 - Lemelson-MIT Prize
• 2010 - Royal Society of Chemistry - Organic Division, Bioorganic Chemistry Award
• 2011 - Member of the Institute of Medicine.
• 2011 - Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry.
• 2011 - Emanuel Merck Lectureship.
• 2012 - Honorary Doctorate of Science from Brown University
• 2012 - Heinrich Wieland Prize.
• 2013 - Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
• 2013 - Hans Bloemendal Award.
• UCSF 150th Anniversary Alumni Excellence Awards
• 2017 - Arthur C. Cope Award.
• 2018 - Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS).
• 2020 - John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science.
• 2020 - Chemistry for the Future Solvay Prize.
• 2020 - F. A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research.
• 2022 - Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
• 2022 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry