Specially Appointed Professor at Hokkaido University Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

On October 6th, 2021, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Benjamin List of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung and David W. C. MacMillan of Princeton University “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”

Dr. Benjamin List is currently a Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Max Planck Institute for Coal Research) and also a Professor at the University of Cologne and a Specially Appointed Professor at Hokkaido University.

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