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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the inventor. 'Asymmetric organic catalyst'
Dr Benjamin List of Germany of the Max PlanckSLOTXOInstitute and Dr David McMillan of Scotland from Princeton University have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in developing a new molecular building tool, or "asymmetric organic catalyst". that facilitates pharmaceutical research and make chemistry more environmentally friendly
The Nobel Prize Jury for Chemistry announced this year's winners in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday (Oct. 6) including German Benjamin and American David McMillan. Developed a new precision tool for creating molecules called "Organic catalysts" that have a huge impact on pharmaceutical research and make chemistry more environmentally friendly.
"Organic catalysts can be used to drive a wide variety of chemical reactions," the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement. "By using these reactions Now researchers can invent things. more efficiently expelled from new pharmaceuticals to light-capturing molecules in solar cells.” These catalysts are environmentally friendly and inexpensive to manufacture.
Scott Dr. David McMillan
Scott Dr. David McMillan
The committee's statement added that Before the work of the couple Scientists believe There are only two types of catalysts: metals and enzymes, but in 2000 the two researchers were doing different research. has developed a third type of catalyst known as "Asymmetric organic catalysts" that use small organic molecules
MacMillan, 53, teaches at Princeton University in the United States. Director of the Max Planck Institute in Germany The pair will split the prize money in half with SEK 10 million.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is the third Nobel Prize awarded this year. after the Nobel Prize in Medicine and the Nobel Prize in Physics
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