The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021

Benjamin List

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Prize share: 1/2

David MacMillan

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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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