The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
Awarded on: 2021-10-06
"for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis"
Affiliations:
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung – Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Benjamin List
Born: 1968-01-11 in Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Germany
Gender: male
Field: German chemist (born 1968)
Biography
Benjamin List is a German chemist who is one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cologne. He co-developed organocatalysis, a method of accelerating chemical reactions and making them more efficient. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David MacMillan "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis".