New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- David MacMillan, who shared the 2021 Chemistry Nobel Prize with Benjamin List, doesn't see himself primarily as a chemist. He sees himself as a curious person who's deeply interested in the world around him. "If you look around the room you're in, everything you see-everything in the world-requires a chemical reaction," he says. MacMillan, 57, was at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru on 3 November for The Nobel Prize Dialogue 2025, a series of talks addressing global issues, in association with the Tata Trusts. MacMillan's Nobel was awarded was for "the development of asymmetric organocatalysis", in other words, designing organic molecules (common elements that make up all living things) that are non-toxic ...