Benjamin List and David MacMillan are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 for their development of a new and ingenious tool for molecule building: organocatalysis. Its uses include research into new pharmaceuticals and it has also helped make chemistry greener.

06/10/2021 · Who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry? The chemistry prize was jointly awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their work on the development of Crispr-Cas9, a method for ...

06/10/2021 · Princeton’s David MacMillan receives Nobel Prize in chemistry. Princeton University professor David W.C. MacMillan has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in chemistry “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”.

04/12/2019 · An opaque change has been the mutation of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry into what is effectively the “Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Life Sciences.” This paper presents a detailed study of this opaque change, including evidence that the disciplines of chemistry and biochemistry cover, today, intellectually quite distinct and generally ...

What, Another Nobel Prize in Chemistry to a Nonchemist? Roald Hoffmann* T he 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to a materials scientist, Dan Shechtman, for the discovery of quasi-crystals.Theusualrumblingsfollowed— why not include Paul Steinhardt, how about Roger Penrose? And, among chemists, a different tune, with an angry,