It is predicted that free radical chemistry, click chemistry, metal-organic framework (MOF) and vaccine technology may win the Nobel Prize in the field of 202 1 chemistry.

The world will announce the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry in less than two weeks. On the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the most prestigious prize in science/KLOC-0, people are excited again. Analysts and online commentators are once again trying to predict who will be recognized. The most popular ones include free radical chemistry, click chemistry, metal-organic framework (MOF) and vaccine technology.

Clarivate Analytics is responsible for maintaining the publishing index platform of Science Network. It puts forward the pioneering research on free radical chemistry by British biochemist Barry Halliwell, the discovery and development polymerization of metal-catalyzed active free radicals by Japanese researcher Mitsue Sawamoto, and William Jorgensen of Yale University in recognition of his work in computational chemistry of organic and biomolecular systems in solution.

Crevian's Nobel prediction was founded 19 years ago, based on the publication and citation data of 52 million scientific articles and conference records indexed in its database. These "citation prize winners" were selected from a few research papers with more than 2000 citations. Among these people who have been highlighted in the database of Science Network for many years because of their influential contributions to science, 59 people won the Nobel Prize shortly thereafter.

For example, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna and John Goodenough are all winners of the 20 15 citation award. These two women won the Nobel Prize in chemistry last year for developing Crispr-Cas9 gene editor. Goodenough shared the 20 19 bonus with Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for his role in developing lithium-ion batteries. Other Nobel Prize winners in chemistry successfully predicted by Clarivate in previous years include Fraser stoddart and martin karplus.

In a public opinion poll conducted by Chemical Viewpoint magazine, the two main competitors this year are Shankar Balasubramanian of Cambridge University, who is famous for his work on nucleic acid and next generation sequencing, and Omar Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley, who is famous for his work on MOF and * * * valence organic framework. Balasubramanian and David Klenerman, a biophysical chemist at Cambridge University, won one of the breakthrough prizes of $3 million (2.3 million pounds) earlier this month-a series of awards set by top technology entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.

Katalin Karikó is a part-time biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania. He helped develop mRNA technology and served as the senior vice president of BioNtech, a German biotechnology company. The company cooperated with Pfizer to develop a successful coronavirus pneumonia-19 vaccine, which tied for second place in the opinion poll with Klenerman. On September 2 1, Karikó also won the Life Science Breakthrough Award for its mRNA-based vaccine technology, which laid the foundation for the first Sars-Cov-2 vaccine. Krugman is famous for her contribution to the next generation of DNA sequencing, which matches her vote in the chemical poll.

Comment on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Every year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to at most three people and two different scientific researches. The winner was selected by the Bell Chemical Committee. The committee consists of five members recommended by the Royal Swedish Academy. In the first round of selection held in September each year, about 3,000 people, including university professors and Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, will receive a confidential nomination form.

The form must be sent to the Nobel Committee before June 1 day of the following year. After deliberation, experts will select about 15 nominees. The Committee submitted the final candidate's report to the Royal Academy of Sciences for further consideration. The Academy of Science of the Royal Swedish Academy finally selected the winner by a majority of votes.

According to the regulations of the Nobel Foundation, the list of nominees is never made public, and the nominees themselves will never know that they have been nominated. Nomination records are sealed for 50 years.