Yves Chauvin
French chemist (1930–2015)
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French chemist who cracked olefin metathesis and grabbed the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it. Spent his career at the Institut français du pétrole, turning obscure chemical reactions into Nobel-level visibility.
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Yves Chauvin 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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