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Robert H. Grubbs

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Nobel prize winning American chemist (1942-2021)

United StatesScientistsLived 1942 to 2021 · aged 79
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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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AIC Gold Medal recipient, 2010AIC Gold Medal recipient, 2010

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2017Foreign Member of the Royal Society
2017George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry
2013honorary doctor of the RWTH Aachen University
2011Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry
2010American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal
2009ACS Award for Creative Invention
2005Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2005August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal
2004Centenary Prize
2004Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Synthetic Organic Chemistry Research
2003Linus Pauling Award
2003Tetrahedron Prize
2003Clarivate Citation Laureates
2002Arthur C. Cope Award
2002Tolman Award
2001Prelog Medal and Lecture
2000Benjamin Franklin Medal
2000Herman Mark Award in Polymer Chemistry
1997Nagoya Gold Medal
1995ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry
1988American Chemical Society Award in Organometallic Chemistry
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Humboldt Prize
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Florida Inventors Hall of Fame
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards

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Ei-ichi NegishiAlso won American Chemical Society Award in Organometallic ChemistryKarl Barry SharplessAlso won Prelog Medal and LecturePierre-Gilles de GennesAlso won ACS Award in Polymer ChemistryArieh WarshelAlso won Tolman AwardRoger Y. TsienAlso won ACS Award for Creative InventionRobert RobinsonAlso won August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal

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United States
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Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1942 to 2021 · aged 79
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