Benjamin List

Benjamin List (born 11 January 1968), also known as Ben List, is a German chemist. He is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cologne. He helped create organocatalysis. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David MacMillan.^[1]

Benjamin List
Born	(1968-01-11) 11 January 1968 (age 57) Frankfurt, West Germany (now Germany)
Education	Free University of Berlin (Diplom) Goethe University Frankfurt (PhD)
Relatives	Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (aunt)
Awards	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2016) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2021)
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Cologne Max Planck Institute for Coal Research Hokkaido University
Thesis	Synthese eines Vitamin B 12 Semicorrins (1997)
Doctoral advisor	Johann Mulzer