David W.C. MacMillan
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David W.C. MacMillan
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
Born: 1968, Bellshill, United Kingdom
Affiliation at the time of the award: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Prize motivation: "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis."
Prize share: 1/2
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