David MacMillan, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry!
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- Good morning, world. Our very own David MacMillan has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. We are awash in joy!
- It is our great pleasure to announce that Michelle Chang has joined @PrincetonChem as the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry. Welcome, Michelle, we are thrilled to have you. Read here: bit.ly/3R69meh
- Nobel Laureate in Chemistry David MacMillan at the Swedish Embassy Press Conference, Washington, D.C., this morning: “I didn’t do much; it was my students who did everything.” #phdchat #Chemistry
- Congratulations to the @MacMillan_Lab for their latest, just out in @Nature: “Unlocking carbene reactivity by metallaphotoredox a-elimination.” Great work by Ben, Nathan, Dave and colleagues at Janssen: bit.ly/4ebrtsH
- It is our great pleasure to announce that Christopher Chang @christhechang has joined @PrincetonChem as the Edward and Virginia Taylor Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry. Welcome, Chris, we are thrilled to have you! Read here: bit.ly/49JJsV4
- In research out today in @Nature, the Rabinowitz Lab's “Slow TCA flux and ATP production in primary solid tumours but not metastases” quantifies for the first time a cancerous tumor’s low energy budget. Great work Josh, @Caroline_Bartma and all: bit.ly/3YbMr1W #cancer
- Congratulations to Professor Sir David MacMillan @dmac68, formally invested Knight Bachelor of the British Empire by King Charles III this morning #BuckinghamPalace (pictured here with family members)!
- We are thrilled to announce that Alice Kunin will join @PrincetonChem as assistant professor in the Spectroscopy/Physical Chemistry subfield. Welcome Alice! Story: bit.ly/3MSzeHf
- We are thrilled to announce that renowned chemist Mircea Dincă @DincaGroup will be joining the faculty @PrincetonChem. Read the announcement: bit.ly/4eLeEWh
- David MacMillan on his grad students/postdocs: “My group are the people who really deserve the most credit. They have bought into what we do, what we care about, how we go forward in our science. I just can’t express enough gratitude for everything they’ve done.”
- Michael Souza, @PrincetonChem’s inimitable scientific glassblower, will retire after 30 years of innovation and mentorship as a “flameworker.” Thank you for everything, Mike. Story: bit.ly/3a4KgKf #glassmaking #glassblowing #UNYearOfGlass #glass #Chemistry
- We are thrilled to announce that Todd Hyster of @HysterLab will be joining @PrincetonChem as Professor of Chemistry this July! Welcome Todd and Lab. Announcement: bit.ly/45EO0tF
- Congratulations to the @MacMillan_Lab on their paper out today in @Nature: “Alkene dialkylation by triple radical sorting.” Well done Johnny, Will, and Dave! Story here: bit.ly/49vA4n6
