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Join our partners at Chicago Scots in-person or online with Gus Noble OBE and Stuart Miller, a top global sustainability scientist at UL Materials Research Institute, hosts his friend, Nobel Laureate Sir David MacMillan, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University, for a ‘Dram & Discussion’ on his accomplished career, his love of football, and how being Scottish helped him win the Nobel Prize!

Learn more about Sir David’s remarkable story, including:

• The happy childhood growing up in New Stevenston, Scotland, the grandson of a coal miner and the son of a steelworker and the academic journey that led to Princeton.

• Why risk taking and “solving problems in inventive ways” is his trademark.

• The Nobel Prize breakthrough that led to developing – asymmetric organocatalysis – which revolutionized how molecules are built, making drug manufacturing much more efficient and environmentally friendly, greener and safer.

• Why he bet his house on a BBC broadcast last year that his work in molecular chemistry will lead to a treatment in Alzheimer’s disease by 2030.