About Benjamin List
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". In particular, while still an assistant professor he discovered the possibility of using the amino acid proline as an efficient chiral catalyst.
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