The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005

Yves Chauvin

Photo: U. Montan

Prize share: 1/3

Robert H. Grubbs

Photo: R. Paz

Prize share: 1/3

Richard R. Schrock

Photo: L.B. Hetherington

Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 was awarded jointly to Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"

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