Yves Chauvin
Yves Chauvin
Yves Chauvinwas 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 metathesis for which he was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth10 October 1930
CountryFrance
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