The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
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Benjamin List
Prize share: 1/2
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David W.C. MacMillan
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 was awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis"
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