October 14, 2005
Nobel Prizes Awarded in Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine
Chemistry
Two American scientists and a French scientist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week for developing the so-called metathesis reaction, in which two pairs of bonds between carbon atoms trade places, the way two pairs of dancers change partners.
The three winners are Yves Chauvin, 74, honorary research director of the French Institute of Petroleum; Robert H. Grubbs, 63, a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology; and Richard R. Schrock, 60, a
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