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Robert H. Grubbs
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Nobel prize winning American chemist (1942-2021)
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Robert H. Grubbs was a scientist born on February 27, 1942, and died on December 19, 2021. He received one Nobel Prize.
His work is recognized in several collections, including the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Chemistry collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2005
“for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Howard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Possum Trot
- Place of death
- Duarte
- Occupation
- autobiographer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- chemistry
- Image
- Robert Grubbs Royal Society.jpg
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- Commons category
- Robert H. Grubbs
- date of birth
- 1942-02-27
- member of
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Robert Howard Grubbs
- date of death
- 2021-12-19
- interested in
- chemistry
- described at URL
- www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/science/robert-h-grubbs-dead.html
- birth name
- Robert Howard Grubbs
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS (February 27, 1942 – December 19, 2021) 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.
Grubbs was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for developments in catalysts that have enabled commercial products.
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