Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2024).
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Benjamin List
Benjamin List is a German chemist who is one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cologne. He co-developed organocatalysis, a method of accelerating chemical reactions and making them more efficient. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David MacMillan "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis".
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Born 11 January 1968 · Q105572
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2023· 1 entry
Psychology Today: Benjamin List
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2022).
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2021· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.
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EurekAlert!: Dr. Benjamin List, a specially appointed professor at Hokkaido University, was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2021).
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2016).
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Horst Pracejus Prize (2013).
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Awarded Ruhrpreis for Arts and Science (2013).
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Awarded Mukaiyama Award (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Otto Bayer Award (2012).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2009).
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Carl Duisberg Memorial Award (2003).
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Returned to Germany to become group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, and in 2005 he became one of the institute's directors, heading the Homogeneous Catalysis Department
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1993· 1 entry
And his PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt in 1997
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1968· 1 entry
Born 1968-01-11.
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1728· 1 entry
“Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion”
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1725· 1 entry
“A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain”
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