The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 was awarded jointly to Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"
The Caltech Nobel Prize winner, whose methods of breaking apart molecules and rebuilding them according to specification revolutionized the field of organic chemistry, has died at 79.
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