Beijing News Express (Reporter Xie Lian) On the afternoon of October 6, Beijing time, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm that it would award the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to German scientist Benjamin List and American scientist David W.C. MacMillan for their contributions to asymmetric organic catalytic development. They will share a bonus of 10 million Swedish kroner (approximately RMB 7.35 million).
German and American scientists won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Source: Nobel Prize official website
Nobel Prize Committee said that Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan have developed a new and clever molecular construction tool - organic catalysis, whose uses include researching new drugs and helping make chemistry more environmentally friendly.
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 112 times, with a total of 186 winners. Since British biochemist Frederick Sanger won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice in 1958 and 1980, the actual number of winners was 185.
The youngest Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry is Jean Frederick Jorio Curie, who was only 35 years old when he won the award in 1935. The oldest Nobel Prize in Chemistry is John Goodenav, who was 97 years old when he won the award in 2019. As of 2020, a total of 7 women have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to 2 female scientists, namely Emmanuel Carpentier, from France and Jennifer Dudner, from the United States, for their "development of a genome editing method".
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