List, Benjamin

List, Benjamin, 1968–, b. Frankfurt, Germany. German chemist, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and Professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cologne. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David MacMillanfor "the development of asymmetric organocatalysis."

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