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Yves Chauvin was a French chemist who lived from 1930 to 2015 and made important contributions to chemistry. His work is recognized as significant enough to be studied and remembered by the scientific community, though specific details about his major discoveries would require additional sources.
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- 1930-10-10
- Died
- 2015-01-27
- Works
- 1
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Yves Chauvin ( French: [iv ʃovɛ̃]; 10 October 1930 – 27 January 2015) was a French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate. He was honorary research director at the Institut français du pétrole and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was known for his work for deciphering the process of olefin metathesis for which he was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock.
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