2021

David W.C. MacMillan was awarded the Nobel Prize.

David W.C. MacMillan, Chemistry, Princeton University, became the second Cottrell Scholar and 42nd RCSA-supported scientist to be awarded a Nobel Prize. He shares the award in chemistry with Benjamin List, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis, a precise new tool that made a great impact on pharmaceutical research and has made chemistry greener. MacMillan’s Cottrell Scholar award in 2001 was for “Enantioselective Organocatalysis: A New and Broadly Useful Strategy for Asymmetric Synthesis Using Organic Catalysts.”