# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-h-grubbs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:58:06.179Z

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name: "Robert H. Grubbs"
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description: "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."
tagline: "Nobel prize winning American chemist (1942-2021)"
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birthDate: "1942-02-27"
deathDate: "2021-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump