Benjamin List, a German researcher, and David W.C. MacMillan, an American researcher of British descent, bagged the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They won the 2021 Nobel Prize for their discovery of new chemicals. The prize money of $ 11.4 lakh (Rs 8.2 crore) will be shared between the two. Born in Frankfurt in 1968, List holds a Ph.D. from Max Goethe University.
He is currently the director of the Max Planck Institute. David MacMillan was born in 1968 in Bellshill, UK. He is currently a lecturer at Princeton University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, USA.