# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-list
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:33:04.066Z

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name: "Benjamin List"
slug: "benjamin-list"
description: "Benjamin List 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\"."
tagline: "German chemist (1968-)"
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country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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birthDate: "1968-01-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump