The Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to the German Benjamin List and the American David MacMillan

End of suspense.

The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded this Wednesday morning to the German Benjamin List and the American David MacMillan for their work on the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.

If they did not receive the Nobel Prize in medicine, the pioneers of messenger RNA vaccines against Covid-19 had a new chance with chemistry.

But they didn't win in this category either, with many believing it to be too early for the generally very cautious Nobel Assembly.

The day before, it was the Nobel in physics which had been awarded to the American-Japanese Syukuro Manabe and the German Klaus Hasselmann for "the physical modeling of the Earth's climate and for having quantified its variability and predicted reliably. global warming ”as well as to the Italian theorist Giorgio Parisi for his contribution to the so-called theory of complex systems.

In 2020, two women, the French Emmanuelle Charpentier and the American Jennifer Doudna received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for having developed "molecular scissors" capable of modifying human genes.