Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis". More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ Discussed by Martyn Poliakoff, Pete Licence and Liam Ball at the University of Nottingham. Nobel website: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2021/summary/ Many more Nobel Prize videos on our channel: http://bit.ly/periodicnobel Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/periodicvideos More chemistry at http://www.periodicvideos.com/ Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/periodicvideos And on Twitter at http://twitter.com/periodicvideos From the School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/NottChem This episode was also generously supported by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Periodic Videos films are by video journalist Brady Haran: http://www.bradyharan.com/ Brady's Blog: http://www.bradyharanblog.com/ Filming and editing in this video by Sean Riley and James Hennessy. Join Brady's mailing list for updates and extra stuff --- http://eepurl.com/YdjL9