Organocatalysis Nobel laureate will give prize money to underprivileged students
2021 chemistry Nobel prize winner David MacMillan founds charity in his parents’ honour
Organocatalysis chemist David MacMillan will give his Nobel prize money – around £405,000 – to underprivileged students in Scotland who are trying to get to university, he said on BBC Radio Scotland’s football show Off the Ball.
MacMillan, who now leads a research team at Princeton University, US, is originally from Scotland and completed his undergraduate chemistry degree at the University of Glasgow before moving to the US for his doctorate. In 2021, he and Benjamin List shared the chemistry Nobel prize for developing asymmetric organocatalysis. Each of them received 5 million Swedish kronor.