The duo succeeds French Geneticians Emmanuelle Carpenter and American Jennifer Doudna, rewarded in 2020 for “molecular scissors”.
Le Monde with AFP
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2021 was awarded, Wednesday, October 6, in Stockholm, to the German Benjamin List and America David WC MacMillan for “the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”, a new construction tool Molecules that allowed “verdir” chemistry and improve pharmaceutical research.
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The 2021 #nobelPrize in Chemistry Has Been Awarded to Benjamin List and David WC MacMillan “For T … https://t.co/ggus6hf7bq “/p>- nobelprize (@The Nobel Prize)The Nobel season continues Thursday with literature, before peace on Friday and the economy on Monday. The prestigious reward is the third of the season after the Nobel of Medicine, which has been awarded Monday to two specialists in the nervous and touch system, the Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, whose works have paved the way to combat chronic pain And the Nobel of Physics awarded Tuesday to two experts from the physical modeling of climate change, the American-Japanese Syukuro Manabe and German Klaus Hasselmann, as well as to Italian Giorgio Parisi, theoretician of complex physical systems.
The price of literature, the most expected event of the general public with the Nobel de la Paix, Friday in Oslo, will be announced Thursday by the Swedish Academy. As for peace, the price is particularly open this year, with the favorites of organizations defending the freedom of the press or the opponent Belarusian Svetlana Tsikhanovskaya. The price of economy, more recent creation, will close the season on Monday.