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David MacMillan

1968 - Today

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Sir David William Cross MacMillan (born 16 March 1968) is a Scottish chemist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, where he was also the chair of the Department of Chemistry from 2010 to 2015. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis". MacMillan used his share of the $1.14 million prize to establish the May and Billy MacMillan Foundation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David MacMillan is the 518th most popular chemist (down from 481st in 2019), the 3,935th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,304th in 2019) and the 66th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, David MacMillan ranks 518 out of 602. Before him are Luis E. Miramontes, Zdenko Hans Skraup, Jacob Volhard, Heinrich Caro, Albert Eschenmoser, and Alexey Favorsky. After him are Omowunmi Sadik, Nina Andreyeva, Bruce Ames, James Smithson, Charles Blagden, and Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, David MacMillan ranks 209. Before him are Leticia Calderón, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Michael Stuhlbarg, Eddie Marsan, Kristen Cloke, and Hassiba Boulmerka. After him are Gianni Morbidelli, Oleh Tyahnybok, Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau, Seth Gilliam, Katja K, and Yevgeny Shevchuk.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David MacMillan ranks 3,936 out of 8,785. Before him are Bob Fitzsimmons (1863), Ian Hunter (1939), Emma Kirkby (1949), George Borrow (1803), Eddie Marsan (1968), and Fay Weldon (1931). After him are Ian Abercrombie (1934), Henry Daniell (1894), Peter Whitehead (1914), Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer (1897), Grace Chisholm Young (1868), and Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, David MacMillan ranks 66. Before him are Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), William Nicholson (1753), Edward Charles Howard (1774), John Walker (1781), and William Hallowes Miller (1801). After him are Charles Blagden (1748), Neil Bartlett (1932), Robin Hill (1899), John Roebuck (1718), Leslie Orgel (1927), and Carol V. Robinson (1956).

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