At Carlsberg Group and the Carlsberg Research Laboratory, we are immensely proud that our former colleague Morten Meldal today has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Morten receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry, which he developed during his years at the Carlsberg Research Laboratory from 1988-2011.

A discovery which continues the long line of ground-breaking scientific discoveries from the Carlsberg Research Laboratory, such as the purification of yeast and the invention of the pH Scale.

"Morten has always been extremely visionary, and his work with click chemistry is a part of a long tradition of groundbreaking science stemming from the laboratory," says Birgitte Skadhauge, Vice President of the Carlsberg Research Laboratory.

"Today is a historic day for Danish research. A huge congratulations to Morten from the entire Carlsberg Group," she adds.

The Carlsberg Research Laboratory was founded by our founder J.C. Jacobsen in 1875, because he was convinced that he needed to understand the chemistry of beer and the physiology of the organisms involved to pursue perfection.