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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005

"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"
Yves Chauvin Robert H. Grubbs Richard R. Schrock
Photo: U. Montan Photo: R. Paz Photo: L.B. Hetherington
Yves Chauvin Robert H. Grubbs Richard R. Schrock
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
France USA USA
Institut Français du Pétrole
Rueil-Malmaison, France		 California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Pasadena, CA, USA		 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA, USA
b. 1930 b. 1942 b. 1945
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