The newly crowned Nobel laureate in chemistry, Benjamin List, was sitting in an Amsterdam café when he received the news on Wednesday that he would receive the award.
"They called on my cell phone," said the scientist from the German press agency.
“When we were about to order, I saw" Sweden "on the display.
I looked at my wife, we smiled ironically - "Haha, that's the call."
Amsterdam / Mülheim / Ruhr - As a joke.
But then it really was the call.
It was really amazing.
An unbelievable moment. "
He really didn't expect it, otherwise he would hardly have gone to Amsterdam.
He and his wife stayed overnight because they had listened to Gustav Mahler's 5th Symphony in the Concertgebouw on Tuesday evening.
"It was great."
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The research into the development of new organic catalysts, for which he has now been awarded, has led, among other things, to the development of new drugs, such as an HIV drug.
He is particularly pleased about that, said List.
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