Two scientists just joined the small club of LGBT Nobel laureates

Stanford University chemistry Professor Carolyn Bertozzi sits at her desk at Stanford on October 5, the day she was co-awarded the prize in chemistry. (Photo: Courtesy Andrew Brodhead/Stanford University)

Two queer scientists, Carolyn Bertozzi and Svante Pääbo, were awarded Nobel prizes for their scientific discoveries.

Swedish geneticist Pääbo, a 67-year-old bisexual man, was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of…