Chemistry Nobel goes to catalysis work by EU and US researchers

Nobel is second of 2021 won by researchers based at Max Plank institutes and Princeton

Researchers Benjamin List and David MacMillan have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on catalysis, building on what was already a good week for Germany’s Max Planck institutes and Princeton University in the United States.

List is director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung based in Mülheim an der Ruhr in Germany. His win is the second time this week that a Max Planck institute has claimed a share of a 2021 Nobel Prize, after Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg won a share of the physics prize.