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David MacMillan was born on March 16, 1968, in Bellshill, Scotland. He originally went to Glasgow to study Physics, but the physics lecture hall was too cold and the Chemistry lecture hall was much warmer, so he changed major.

Graduated in Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. In 1990 he began his doctoral studies at the University of California, Irvine, dedicating himself to the development of a reaction methodology.

After his doctorate, he was a professor at Harvard University.

His research focuses on the enantioselective catalysis, mainly in the design and development of Sn(II)-derived bisoxazoline complexes (Sn(II box)).As an independent researcher he was a member of the chemistry faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, since July 1998.He joined the chemistry department at Caltech (California Institute of Technology) in June 2000, where his group was dedicated to new approaches to enantioselective catalysis.

On October 6, 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with the German Benjamin List, for the development of the «asymmetric organocatalysis». "That year's prize recognizes an ingenious way of building molecules," announced the spokesman for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Both developed methods to speed up chemical reactions. The method has a great influence on the development of medicinal substances and contributes to making chemical production processes more environmentally friendly.