Benjamin List

Benjamin List
Benjamin List in 2021
Born	(1968-01-11) 11 January 1968 (age 56) Frankfurt, West Germany
Education	Free University of Berlin (Diplom) Goethe University Frankfurt (PhD)
Relatives	Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (aunt)[1]
Awards	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2016) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2021)
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Cologne Max Planck Institute for Coal Research Hokkaido University
Thesis	Synthese eines Vitamin B 12 Semicorrins (1997)
Doctoral advisor	Johann Mulzer
Other academic advisors	Richard Lerner Carlos F. Barbas III

Benjamin List (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛnjamiːn ˈlɪst] ^ⓘ; born 11 January 1968) 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".^[2]