David MacMillan, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Will Address Spring 2024 Graduates (2024)

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Who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for David MacMillan? ›

MacMillan was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his breakthrough; he shared the prize with German chemist Benjamin List. MacMillan studied chemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Glasgow.

MacMillan discovered many organic catalysts capable of producing only the desired enantiomer, without generating the undesired symmetrical molecule. Asymmetric organocatalysis has since become a way to make chemistry less dangerous and more sustainable.

David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.

Although Richard Kuhn (1938, chemistry), Adolf Butenandt (1939, chemistry), and Gerhard Domagk (1939, physiology or medicine) were forced to decline their Nobel awards, the men later received their diplomas and medals.

The 2023 chemistry laureates

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Yekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.” Independently of each other, Ekimov and Brus succeeded in creating quantum dots, and Bawendi revolutionised the chemical production.

Early life. McMillan was born in London, United Kingdom, England, on 9 April 1956. He is the son of John McMillan CBE, who was the controller of Associated-Rediffusion Television, and his Australian wife. After his parents separated, he emigrated to Australia with his mother and sister.

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In 1940 Edwin McMillan used a particle accelerator to radiate uranium with neutrons and proved that an element with an atomic number of 93 had been created. It was named neptunium.

NASA Astronaut Zena Cardman '10, '14 (MS) delivered the keynote address to the Class of 2024 at the University's Spring Commencement. The double Tar Heel is preparing for her first spaceflight.

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BU alum David Grann, the best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, delivered the Commencement address.

MacMillan's discovery led to a 2021 Nobel Prize in chemistry shared with Benjamin List, Ph. D., who independently led similar investigations into what would eventually be known as the field of asymmetric organocatalysis. Their work led to subsequent discoveries in research labs around the world.

Switzerland-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is the only 3-time recipient of the Nobel Prize, being conferred with Peace Prize in 1917, 1944, and 1963. Further, the humanitarian institution's co-founder Henry Dunant won the first-ever Peace Prize in 1901.

Carl Bosch (born Aug. 27, 1874, Cologne, Germany—died April 26, 1940, Heidelberg) was a German industrial chemist who developed the Haber-Bosch process for high-pressure synthesis of ammonia and received, with Friedrich Bergius, the 1931 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for devising chemical high-pressure methods.

Card was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2021. He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2021 for research showing that an increase in minimum wage does not lead to less hiring, and immigrants do not lower pay for native-born workers.

The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 1901 to Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, of the Netherlands, "for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions". From 1901 to 2022, the award has been bestowed on a total of 192 individuals.

Windaus received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928, on account of his work on the constitution of sterols and their connection with vitamins.