Benjamin List (1968)

German chemist, director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr. In 2000, at the Scripps Research Institute, he showed with Richard Lerner and Carlos Barbas that proline catalyses the intermolecular asymmetric aldol addition.

He received the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with David MacMillan, for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.

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