Nobel Prize Chemistry 2021 Winner: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the more than century-old prize, which is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14 million).
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to German Benjamin List and Scottish-born David MacMillan in 2021 for their invention of asymmetric organocatalysis, a “novel and creative method for molecule synthesis.”
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted in a statement that organic catalysts may be employed to drive a wide range of chemical processes.
“Researchers may now create everything from novel medicines to compounds that can collect light in solar cells more effectively using these reactions.”
These catalysts, it said, were both ecologically benign and inexpensive to create.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the more than century-old prize, which is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14 million).
The Nobel Prizes were established and financed in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel, and are awarded for achievements in science, literature, and peace.
They’ve been given out since 1901, with the economics prize being given out for the first time in 1969.
The chemistry prize is the third of this year’s Nobel Awards, after the announcements of the prizes for medicine or physiology and physics earlier this week.
Marie Curie and Fredrick Sanger, who both received the prize twice, are previous winners of the Chemistry prize.
Last year’s laureates Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were awarded the prize for developing genetic “scissors” that can edit DNA, and this year’s laureates Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were awarded the prize for creating genetic “scissors” that can edit DNA.
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