The 81-year-old Sharpless won his second Nobel Prize.

81岁的夏普利斯获得了他的第二个诺贝尔奖。

John Sharpless is a history professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

约翰·夏普莱斯是威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的历史学教授。

Doctor Ned Sharpless is a cancer specialist and the head of the FDA.

医生内德·夏普莱斯（Ned Sharpless）是一名癌症专家，也是FDA的负责人。

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。

He and Sharpless started working separately and came up with some of the early chemical connectors.

他和夏普莱斯开始单独工作，并提出了一些早期的化学连接器。

Aqvist said Sharpless first came up with the idea that led to this year's prize around the year 2000.

阿奎斯特说，夏普莱斯是在2000年左右首次提出这一想法，并最终获得了今年的奖项。

In a statement, Sharpless noted that tobacco use is still the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S.

夏普莱斯在一份声明中指出，" 在美国，吸烟仍然是可预防疾病和死亡的主要原因。"

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。