JUST IN: The 2021 Nobel Prize in chemistry is awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan for 'ingenious' tool to build molecules, helping develop new drugs and making chemistry greener
The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan, two scientists honored for creating"an ingenious tool for building molecules" that has helped develop new drugs and made chemistry greener.
The pair were awarded the prize in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday,"for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis." Their discoveries"initiated a totally new way of thinking for how to put together chemical molecules," said Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, a member of the chemistry Nobel committee.
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