Benjamin List
German chemist (born 1968) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benjamin List (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛnjamiːn ˈlɪst] ⓘ; born 11 January 1968) is a German chemist who is one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cologne. He co-developed organocatalysis, a method of accelerating chemical reactions and making them more efficient. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David MacMillan "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis".[2]
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Born | (1968-01-11) 11 January 1968 (age 56) Frankfurt, West Germany |
Education | Free University of Berlin (Diplom) Goethe University Frankfurt (PhD) |
Relatives | Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (aunt)[1] |
Awards | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2016) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2021) |
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Institutions | University of Cologne Max Planck Institute for Coal Research Hokkaido University |
Thesis | Synthese eines Vitamin B 12 Semicorrins (1997) |
Doctoral advisor | Johann Mulzer |
Other academic advisors | Richard Lerner Carlos F. Barbas III |
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