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". The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021, announced October 6, 2021. Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan, “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”. Benjamin List: born 1968, Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Germany. David W.C. MacMillan: born 1968, Bellshill, United Kingdom. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).