Benjamin List, David WC Macmillan win 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Benjamin List and David WC MacMillan in 2021 for their work on asymmetric organocatalysis.
• The team created a precise new tool for molecular assembly that has had a significant impact on pharmaceutical research and has helped to make chemistry more environmentally friendly.
• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 for developing a method for genome editing.

Important Facts 

About Chemistry

• Father of Chemistry: Antoine Lavoisier
• World’s first chemist: Tapputi-Belatekallim
• Old name of Chemistry: Alchemy
• The Mother of Modern Chemistry: Marie Anne Paulze Lavoisier