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- Born
- 1968-01-11
- Works
- 4
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 64,727x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,605x
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 31,374x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 30,726x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,828x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1968-01-11 ) 11 January 1968 (age 58) , Frankfurt , West Germany
- Education
- Free University of Berlin ( Diplom ), Goethe University Frankfurt (PhD)
- Relatives
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (aunt)
- Awards
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2016), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2021)
- Institutions
- University of Cologne , Max Planck Institute for Coal Research , Hokkaido University
- Thesis
- Synthese eines Vitamin B 12 Semicorrins (1997)
- Doctoral advisor
- Johann Mulzer
- Other academic advisors
- Richard Lerner , Carlos F. Barbas III
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Key dates
- Born
- 11 January 1968
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Benjamin
- Family name
- List
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Frankfurt
- Occupation
- scientist
- Educated at
- Goethe University Frankfurt
- Employer
- Hokkaido University
- Languages spoken
- English language
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Benjamin List ( German pronunciation: [ˈbɛnjamiːn ˈlɪst] ; born 11 January 1968) 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".
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