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Robert H. Grubbs

Chemistry

Robert H. Grubbs was an American chemist and professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Yves Chauvin and Richard R. Schrock for his work on olefin metathesis, and he co-founded Materia, a university spin-off producing catalysts for that reaction.

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Birth Year
1942 1
Death Date
2021-12-19 1
Death Year
2021 1
Death Place
Duarte, United States 1
Nationality
United States 1
Birthplace
Possum Trot, United States 1
Field
Field (category)
Chemistry 1
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1. Robert H. Grubbs (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +2021-12-19T00:00:00Z
  • P570 (date of death): full date
    +2021-12-19T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): United States
    Q30
  • P20 (place of death): Duarte, United States
    Q927189
  • P19 (place of birth): Possum Trot, United States
    Q7233456
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Robert H. Grubbs (Wikipedia)
  • Works In: Chemistry, Lead sentence
    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.
  • Member Of: National Academy of Sciences, Categories
    Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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