The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005
Awarded on: 2005-10-05
"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"
Affiliations:
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – Pasadena, CA, USA
Robert H. Grubbs
Born: 1942-02-27 in Possum Trot, KY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American chemist and Nobel Laureate (1942–2021)
Biography
Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS was an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He was a co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on olefin metathesis.