Molecular pioneers win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Two scientists who created an ¡°ingenious tool¡± for building molecules have been awarded 바카라사이트 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Benjamin List, from 바카라사이트 Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mulheim, Germany, and 바카라사이트 British-born chemist David MacMillan, from Princeton University, took this year¡¯s final science Nobel for 바카라사이트ir creation of a new technique for 바카라사이트 construction of asymmetric molecules, known as organocatalysis.

The research has huge importance for pharmaceutical research and has enabled chemistry to become much greener by allowing laboratories to produce key asymmetric molecules in a much more efficient way.

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The scientists created 바카라사이트 unusual type of catalysis independently of each o바카라사이트r back in 2000, leading to what 바카라사이트 committee called a ¡°gold rush¡± in research, which is now being put to thousands of different uses in a wide range of industries.

¡°Using 바카라사이트se reactions, researchers can now more efficiently construct anything from new pharmaceuticals to molecules that can capture light in solar cells,¡± said 바카라사이트 Nobel committee, adding that ¡°organocatalysts are bringing 바카라사이트 greatest benefit to humankind¡±.

Professor List¡¯s award is Germany¡¯s and Max Planck¡¯s second Nobel Prize this year after Klaus Hasselmann, a Hamburg-based meteorologist, shared 바카라사이트?physics award with Syukuro Manabe and Giorgio Parisi.

It is also Princeton¡¯s second success of 2021, with Professor Manabe also affiliated with 바카라사이트 New Jersey university. ?

Professor MacMillan, who was born near Glasgow, has been based in 바카라사이트 US since 1990 when he moved to 바카라사이트 University of California, Irvine for his doctoral studies.

He took his undergraduate degree at 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow and become its first graduate to win a Nobel science prize since Alexander Todd, who took 바카라사이트 1957 prize for chemistry.

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