The Nobel Committee in Stockholm has named the 2021 Chemistry Prize winners. It was awarded to organic chemists Benjamin List and David McMillan for their creation of asymmetric organocatalysis, a tool for synthesizing molecules.
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The 2021 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.” pic.twitter.com/SzTJ2Chtge— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2021
On Tuesday, the Nobel Committee announced the prize winners in physics. Shukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselman and Giorgio Parisi shared the award for breakthrough discoveries in understanding complex physical systems and modeling the Earth's climate.
Unlike the prize in physics, which in the entire history of awards has been awarded to only two women (and yesterday's three winners are also all men), chemistry turned out to be “a more open science.”
Last year, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of one of the sharpest tools in gene technology: the CRISPR / Cas9 genetic scissors. And Maria Sklodowska-Curie received two Nobels at once.
- 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for inventing “genetic scissors”
- 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for lithium-ion batteries
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Enzymes for Making Drugs
