Benjamin List, David WC MacMillan win Nobel in Chemistry for new way to make molecules
Two scientists won the Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday for finding an “ingenious” new way to build molecules that can be used to make everything from medicines to food flavorings. Benjamin List of Germany and Scotland-born David W.C. MacMillan developed “asymmetric organocatalysis” — work that has already had a significant impact on pharmaceutical research, said Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. List, of the Max Planck Institute, and MacMillan, of Princeton University, independently reported that small organic molecules can be used to do the same job as big enzymes and metal catalysts in reactions that “are precise, cheap, fast and environmentally friendly,” she said. Speaking after the announcement, List said the award was a "huge surprise.” “I absolutely didn’t expect this," the 53-year-old said, adding that he was on vacation in Amsterdam when the call from Sweden came in.
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