The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005
Awarded on: 2005-10-05
"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"
Affiliations:
- Institut Français du Pétrole – Rueil-Malmaison, France
Yves Chauvin
Born: 1930-10-10 in Menin, Belgium
Gender: male
Field: French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Biography
Yves Chauvin was a French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate. He was honorary research director at the Institut français du pétrole and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was known for his work for deciphering the process of olefin metathesis for which he was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock.