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

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Yves Chauvin

French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

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…
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry

One of the five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry,…
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