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Yves Chauvin

Yves Chauvin
Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)

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 Science. 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.

10 October 1930

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