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The 2021 Nobel Prize Laureates in Chemistry

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The 2021 Nobel Prize Laureates in Chemistry :

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 is awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”. Their tools revolutionised the construction of molecules.

Benjamin List was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1968. He obtained his Diplom (M.Sc.) degree in chemistry from the Free University of Berlin in 1993, and his PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt in 1997. 

David MacMillan was born in Bellshill, Scotland in 1968 and grew in nearby New Stevenston. He attended the local state-funded schools, New Stevenston Primary and Bellshill Academy and credited his Scottish education for his success. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Glasgow, where he worked with Ernie Colvin. In 1990, he left the UK to begin his doctoral studies under the direction of Professor Larry Overman at the University of California, Irvine.

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