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Benjamin List

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin List is the 453rd most popular chemist (up from 454th in 2019), the 3,795th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,063rd in 2019) and the 79th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Benjamin List ranks 453 out of 602. Before him are Constantin Fahlberg, J. L. B. Smith, Auguste Laurent, Gaston Tissandier, John Tukey, and Peter Atkins. After him are Johann Schweigger, Nikolay Zinin, Peter Armbruster, Kathleen Lonsdale, Nikolay Beketov, and Walter Noddack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Benjamin List ranks 127. Before him are Cliff Curtis, Mauro Silva, Margrethe Vestager, Juan Antonio Pizzi, Ramush Haradinaj, and Herbert Kickl. After him are Frédéric Vasseur, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Stephanie Seymour, Jorja Fox, and Maria Grazia Cucinotta.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Benjamin List ranks 3,797 out of 7,253. Before him are Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), Carl Diem (1882), Iwan Bloch (1872), Erich Bey (1898), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), and Wolfgang Hofmann (1941). After him are Johann Schweigger (1779), Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766), Johann Georg Halske (1814), John II, Duke of Cleves (1458), Ralf Moeller (1959), and Paul Renner (1878).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Benjamin List ranks 79. Before him are Hugo Schiff (1834), Christian Gmelin (1792), Albert Niemann (1834), Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825), Michael Grätzel (1944), and Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818). After him are Johann Schweigger (1779), Peter Armbruster (1931), Walter Noddack (1893), Theodor Curtius (1857), Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824), and Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842).

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