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Robert H. Grubbs

Scientist · born February 27, 1942 · died 2021

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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.

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  1. ~58Received the Benjamin Franklin Medal2000
  2. ~63Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry2005
  3. ~63Received the Humboldt Prize2005

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