On October 6th, 2021, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Benjamin List of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung and David W. C. MacMillan of Princeton University “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”
Dr. Benjamin List is currently a Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Max Planck Institute for Coal Research) and also a Professor at the University of Cologne and a Specially Appointed Professor at Hokkaido University.
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