Benjamin List
Henning Kretschmer
Henning Kretschmer
Henning Kretschmer

Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung

Benjamin List

2023 Speaker | Breakthrough Day 2022 Nobel Prize Winner Speaker Breakthrough Day

Benjamin List, (born January 11, 1968, Frankfurt am Main) a German chemist who was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on asymmetric organocatalysis. He shared the prize with British chemist David MacMillan. List received a degree in chemistry from the Free University of Berlin in 1993 and a doctorate in the same subject from the Goethe University of Frankfurt in 1997. That year he started a postdoctoral fellowship at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. He became an assistant professor there in 1998 and returned to Germany in 2003 to become a research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, and in 2005 he became director at the institute.

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Thu | Nov 09, 2023 | 09.45 AM - 10.00 AM Berlin Time

Benjamin List: Breaking the Wall to Organocatalysis

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