The winners were Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless from the U.S. and Morten Meldal from Denmark.

获奖者是来自美国的卡罗琳·贝尔托齐和巴里·夏普利斯，以及来自丹麦的莫顿·梅尔达尔。

Meldal started out as an engineer but changed to chemistry because, he said, " I wanted to understand the world."

梅尔达尔一开始是一名工程师，但后来改行做化学，他说，因为“我想了解这个世界。”

Meldal said the Nobel panel told him the news about 30 minutes before the public announcement and told him not to say anything.

梅尔达尔说，诺贝尔奖评审团在公开宣布前30分钟告诉了他这一消息，并告诉他什么都不要说。

So Bertozzi built on the foundations of Sharpless and Meldal's work, designing a copperless " way of using click chemistry with biological systems without killing them" , Diez-Gonzalez said.

迪兹-冈萨雷斯说，因此贝尔托齐建立在夏普勒斯和梅尔达尔工作的基础上，设计了一种无铜的“在不影响细胞或生物活体的情况下使用点击化学的方法”。

Already, click chemistry has been used " to create some very, very durable polymers" that protect against heat, as well as in forms of glue in nano-chemistry, Meldal told AFP.

梅尔达尔告诉法新社，点击化学已经被用来“制造一些非常非常耐用的聚合物”，以防热，以及纳米化学中的胶水形式。

Two of the three winners, Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen and Barry Sharpless of Scripps Research, in La Jolla, California (already a laureate for work on catalysts), invented the underlying trick.

三位获奖者中的两位，哥本哈根大学的 Morten Meldal 和加利福尼亚州拉霍亚斯克里普斯研究所的 Barry Sharpless（已经是催化剂研究的获奖者）发明了潜在的技巧。

Around the year 2000, Sharpless and Meldal separately discovered a specific chemical reaction using copper ions as a catalyst which " changed the playing field" and became " the cream of the crop" , said Silvia Diez-Gonzalez, a chemist at Imperial College London.

伦敦帝国理工学院化学家西尔维娅·迪兹-冈萨雷斯说，大约在 2000 年，沙普利斯和梅尔达尔分别发现了一种使用铜离子作为催化剂的特定化学反应，这种反应“改变了化学反应的环境”，成为“百里挑一的化学物质”。