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The Skeptics Guide #848 - Oct 9 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The 20 21 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The 20 21 nobel prize in chemistry goes to two individuals, professors benjamin liszt of the max plank institute in germany, and david w c Macmillan of princeton university. And they we share the prize for the development of a symmetric organo atalisis. What is organic catalysis? All right, so all ese. What is catalisyet? Well, actiol do get down to that point, but im going to tell you how the newly awarded nobel laureate, ben Benjamin lisZt, described it. He said, organic atalysis is a catalist with small organic molecules where a metal is not part of the

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