Richard R. Schrock

Richard R. Schrock (born Jan. 4, 1945, Berne, Ind., U.S.) is an American chemist who, with Robert H. Grubbs and Yves Chauvin, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2005 for developing metathesis, one of the most important types of chemical reactions used in organic chemistry. Schrock was honoured as “the first to produce an efficient metal-compound catalyst for metathesis.” Schrock received a B.A. (1967) from the University of California, Riverside, and a Ph.D....